{"id":190044,"date":"2016-12-01T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T05:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=190044"},"modified":"2016-12-01T07:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T05:57:37","slug":"ibm-watson-helping-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/190044-ibm-watson-helping-doctors.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM Watson helping doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ibm-unveils-watson-powered-imaging-solutions-for-healthcare-providers-300369727.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM said<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>it will preview new imaging solutions from Watson Health and Merge Healthcare designed to help healthcare providers with\u00a0patient diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Machine learning and artificial intelligence work conducted in IBM Research in combination with expertise from\u00a0the Radiological Society contributed to the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Medical images are the fastest-growing data source in the healthcare industry and IBM researchers estimate that they account for at least 90% of all medical data today.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of medical images can be overwhelming to specialists, with radiologists presented with thousands of images each day.<\/p>\n<p>This has created an opportunity to analyze and cross-reference medical images against a deep trove of lab results, electronic health records, genomic tests, clinical studies, and other health-related data sources.<\/p>\n<p>This enables providers to compare new medical images with a patient&#8217;s image history as well as populations of similar patients to detect changes and anomalies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175132-ibms-watson-diagnoses-rare-leukemia-better-than-doctors.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM\u2019s Watson diagnoses rare leukemia better than doctors<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has unveiled Watson-powered imaging solutions for healthcare providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,835,22473],"class_list":["post-190044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-ibm-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190080,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190044\/revisions\/190080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}