A collaborative of 15 healthcare imaging providers and vendors formed by IBM Watson Health is set to work to bring cognitive imaging to day-to-day practice.
Through the venture, announced by IBM this week, organizations will “put Watson to work to extract insights from previously ‘invisible’ unstructured imaging data and combine that with a broad variety of data from other sources.”
That, IBM notes, will help physicians in personalizing care decisions for patients, as well as grow the care knowledge base for future patients.
Some members of the collaborative include Anne Arundel Medical Center, Baptist Health South Florida, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Radiology Associates of South Florida, Sentara Healthcare and Sheridan Healthcare.
“With the ability to draw insights from massive volumes of integrated structured and unstructured data sources, cognitive computing could transform how clinicians diagnose, treat and monitor patients,” Anne Le Grand, IBM’s vice president of imaging for Watson Health, said in the announcement. “Through IBM's medical imaging collaborative, Watson may create opportunities for clinicians to extract greater insights and value from imaging data while better managing costs.”
Some of the program’s initial efforts will include training Watson on cardiovascular disease, eye health and other conditions using information from the collaborative members.
IBM also recently teamed up with the American Diabetes Association to create a personalized app that gets smarter over time and works with Watson Care Manager. The entities also are developing a diabetes-focused app development challenge for tools that tap the association’s deep data and IBM Watson’s cognitive insights.
To learn more:
- here's the announcement