Dr. Watson Will See You Now: IBM Offers Supercomputer Watson Apps in Cancer, Health Insurance
From the article: "IBM Corp., the health insurer WellPoint Inc. and Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center announced two Watson-based applications — one to help assess
treatments for lung cancer and one to help manage health insurance decisions
and claims.
Both applications take advantage of the speed, huge database and language
skill the computer demonstrated in defeating the best human “Jeopardy!” players
on television two years ago.
Armonk-based IBM said Watson has improved its performance by 240 percent
since the “Jeopardy!” win." Read more
