Tuesday, May 10, 2016

#HDPalooza – @N_Brennan introduces Deborah DiSanzo Of @IBMWatson

IBM Watson

Deborah DiSanzo, MBA
General Manager, Head of Watson Health, IBM; Former Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Philips Healthcare, Boston, MA

The future of Healthcare is cognitive computing

150+ exabytes of healthcare data today.
Chronic disease will have $47T global impact by 2030
75% of patients will use digital health services in the future.

Watson learns with every item of data it consumes.

IBM Created Watson Health in 2015.

5,000 employees.
80,000 developers working on Watson.
1.2M medical abstracts.
100M+ Patient Records
200M+ lives covered

Medtronic
CVS
Apple (Research Kit)

20 Institutions worldwide working on oncology using Watson.

Advancing from cancer to Diabetes, Heart Disease and alzheimers.

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