Sunday, September 18, 2011

Watson's IBM supercomputer starts working in hospital

Watson, supercomputer created by IBM that became famous earlier this year after winning the program Jeopardy questions and answers, is the newest member of the team's diagnostic system of health insurance WellPoint, which operates in the United States.


In Watson last February and its sophisticated artificial intelligence system gained a bit of the world's attention by participating in the TV show - in which participants are asking questions from clues given by the presenter - and beat the champions Brad and Jen Jennings Rutter.


Watson
At that time it was said that robozão offer its services to two university hospitals as a way of testing. Approved with honors in student life, now Watson won his first post in the labor market.

In his new role, Watson will be responsible for reviewing medical histories, keep up to date on scientific research and to help WellPoint doctors to identify what's wrong with their patients. IBM says Watson 200 is capable of analyzing millions of pages of data and to answer any questions precosão in less than three seconds.

"Imagine having all the information about the patient's history, such as symptoms, findings, and similar cases and then use the analytical capabilities of Watson, with state of the art knowledge of clinical and medical literature to help provide guidance in the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, "said Sam Nussbaum, Register to the site.

Watson uses a system called DeepQA to manage your information and research among its database of information. In addition, he is able to understand human language to improve the quality of results.

Still in implementation phase, Watson will begin offering its services to physicians in the WellPoint earlier this year.