Jun 20, 2015
Have you met Watson? A presentation by Romain [email protected]
Author
Romain Fardellone– International Medical Communication Project Leader
at Servier • Drive organizational transformation relating to multi-
channel marketing strategy• Create innovative services for healthcare professionals
and patients• Define, gather, analyze, and distribute intelligence about
products, competitors and any aspect of the pharmaceutical environment
– CSC, IPSEN Pharm, Lilly– Pharmacist– HEC Paris School of Management
Have you met Watson?
• The supercomputer developed by IBM
• It has learned to– ask questions using
ordinary language,– analyze findings, and– come up with the right
answers in very different environments
Watson has already beaten the best human champions in the American quiz show
Jeopardy!
http://www.kurzweilai.net/md-anderson-cancer-center-taps-ibm-watson-to-power-its-mission-to-eradicate-cancer
Watson uses hypothesis generation andevidence-based learning to support
oncologists as they make decisions.
In tests, Watson successfully diagnosed lung cancer in 90 percent of cases,
compared with 50 percent for doctors.
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/pdf/MSK_Case_Study_IMC14794.pdf
Watson is on iPad
Bloomberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEOJnn_zlg
So, the question,
“Do you think supercomputer could help human doctors?”,
might have led a famous fictional detective from Baker Street in London to remark:
“Elementary, my dear Watson!”…