IBM's Watson is better at diagnosing cancer than human doctors. IBM's Watson -- the language-fluent computer that beat the best human champions at a game of the US TV show Jeopardy!
-- is being turned into a tool for medical diagnosis. Its ability to absorb and analyse vast quantities of data is, IBM claims, better than that of human doctors, and its deployment through the cloud could also reduce healthcare costs. The first stages of a planned wider deployment, IBM's business agreement with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and American private healthcare company Wellpoint will see Watson available for rent to any hospital or clinic that wants to get its opinion on matters relating to oncology. Not only that, but it'll suggest the most affordable way of paying for it in America's excessively-complex healthcare market.
The hope is it will improve diagnoses while reducing their costs at the same time.
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