Watson's artificial intelligence advises doctors worldwide
Watson is helping relieve China's overburdened hospitals
A program only a year old is helping doctors from around the world diagnose patients and come up with treatment plans. When doctors are stumped or in need of more options, they can turn to the algorithms of IBM's Watson for advice.
It has proven particularly helpful in China where there are only 1.5 doctors for ever 1,000 people compared to 2.5 for the US and Britain. It helps overburdened Chinese doctors process patients more quickly. Chinese Oncologists have used Watson to develop better treatment plans for cancer patients. Article.
Watson in use in US cancer treatment since 2015
Since 2015 US and Canadian cancer institutes have used Watson in assisting with specialized cancer treatments.
The Cleveland Clinic, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha and Yale Cancer Center began implementing Watson to help doctors and patients as early as 2015. The centers pay a subscription fee, which IBM did not disclose.
The other collaborating centers are Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago; BC Cancer Agency in British Columbia; City of Hope, in Duarte, California; Duke Cancer Institute in North Carolina; McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis; New York Genome Center, Sanford Health in South Dakota; University of Kansas Cancer Center; University of Southern California Center for Applied Molecular Medicine, and University of Washington Medical Center. Source
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