Artificial intelligence
Leading the way: female health leaders drive adoption of AI
Written by Watson Health | Artificial intelligence, Government, Provider
Female leaders across the health industry were applauded for their ability to integrate AI into their organizations, reinforcing the potential of AI to help governments, health plans, health systems and others tackle their most pressing challenges. ...read more
Three things to know about IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis
Written by Watson Health | Artificial intelligence, Imaging
Watson Health plans to debut its newest AI-powered solution, IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis, which displays relevant patient data in a single-screen view for the radiologist. ...read more
Consolidation is coming: Is your organization ready?
Written by Watson Health | Artificial intelligence, Imaging
Half of chief financial officers and other top executives from mostly middle-market healthcare companies said they plan to buy or merge with existing businesses in the next year. ...read more
Power to the patient: A new era in cancer care
Written by Dr. Roar Johansen | Artificial intelligence, Oncology & Genomics, Provider
The EU Commission is responding to citizen demand for greater focus on healthcare, particularly when it comes to cancer care. ...read more
6 ways a VNA can reduce imaging costs
Written by Kathleen Schroeder | Artificial intelligence, Imaging
Data from the American College of Radiology indicates that diagnostic imaging accounts for 10 percent ($100 billion) of total annual healthcare costs. ...read more
Can AI and technologies help improve health, social care and social security services delivery?
Written by Dr. Hector Upegui | Artificial intelligence, Government, Provider...
We are witnessing the increasing shift from chronic to complex disease, acute to chronic care needs and the absolute requirement for coordinated primary, secondary and community care. ...read more
Hardin Memorial Health debuts new AI solution for radiologists
Written by Watson Health | Artificial intelligence, Imaging, Stories
After becoming the first client to “go live” with IBM Watson Imaging Patient Synopsis, the radiologists at Hardin Memorial Health can now use the power of AI to help them find relevant patient information quickly and easily. ...read more
Making the Promise of Smarter Health a Reality
Written by Dr. John E. Kelly III | Analytics, Artificial intelligence, Cloud...
The true value of data flowing through physicians' offices and public health departments has gone untapped because it is unstructured and siloed in systems that don’t talk to one another. ...read more
Five ways AI supports key drug research decisions with unstructured data
Written by Watson Health | Analytics, Artificial intelligence
Ingesting and analyzing millions of documents in seconds, AI is able to construct dynamic, comprehensive networks of relationships between a wide variety of concepts across a vast corpus of data to provide the inclusive view needed to make informed decisions. ...read more
The state of telehealth, and its role in the fight against opioid use disorder
Written by Watson Health | Analytics, Artificial intelligence, Government
Telehealth is ready to take center stage. Telehealth is in the fight against opioid use disorder. But are consumers and healthcare providers ready to start giving and receiving care via their computers and smartphones, and are private health plans ready to pay for it? Based on recent media reports tracking sentiment toward the technology, telehealth is definitely on an upward trend ...read more
Examining the variation in cancer care
Written by Watson Health | Artificial intelligence, Oncology & Genomics
As medicine moves forward—making advances in prevention, detection, care delivery and more—cancer marches on, killing nearly 2 million Europeans every year. As one would expect, the reasons are as complex as cancer itself and one of the most significant reasons is variability in care. Here, we explore some of the reasons behind the variation and how AI may be able to help. ...read more
Seven reasons why the time has come for AI technology in cancer care
Written by Watson Health | Artificial intelligence, Oncology & Genomics
Data is proliferating and EHRs are a key source of data. Fewer doctors are practicing oncology, cancer is spreading, and more care is needed. Clinical research keeps growing. ...read more
