XPRIZE has teamed up with IBM Watson to launch IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a $5 million, four-year global competition challenging teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.The $5M prize will focus on creating scalable AI apps that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines including healthcare, education, energy & environment, global development and
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IBM Forms Watson Health Medical Imaging Collaborative
IBM has formed a Watson Health medical imaging collaborative, a global initiative comprised of more than fifteen leading health systems, academic medical centers, ambulatory radiology providers and imaging technology companies. The goal of the collaborative is to bring cognitive imaging into daily practice to help doctors address breast, lung, and other cancers; diabetes; eye health; brain disease; and heart disease and related conditions, such as stroke.Collaboration DetailsEach member of the
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IBM Launches SleepHealth App, Unveils Watson Health for ResearchKit
Today at HIMSS16, IBM Watson Health and the American Sleep Apnea launched the SleepHealth app to help identify connections between sleep habits and health outcomes. SleepHealth is the first ResearchKit study to run on the data-rich Watson Health Cloud that will enable participants to easily complete tasks and submit surveys right from the SleepHealth app.
SleepHealth Study Overview
In concert with researchers, physicians and patient advocates in the US, the SleepHealth study will
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IBM Watson, NY Genome Center to Create Open Cancer Data Repository
Unveiled during Thursdays's White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit, the New York Genome Center and IBM Watson are teaming up to create a comprehensive and open repository of genetic data to accelerate cancer research and scale access to precision medicine. Utilizing cognitive insights from IBM Watson, the partnership could help transform the way physicians deliver personalized treatment to individual patients.
Open Cancer Data Repository Details
Together, IBM and New York Genome
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IBM Watson Health to Acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6B
IBM Watson Health today announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights for $2.6 billion. The acquisition will boost IBM Watson Health to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of health-related data, representing an aggregate of approximately 300 million patient lives acquired from three companies. Through the Watson Health Cloud, healthcare organizations will be able to take previously disparate data sets,
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AHA, IBM Watson Health, Welltok Partner to Transform Heart Health
The American Heart Association is teaming up with IBM Watson Health and Welltok to develop a first of its kind workplace health solution that leverages the cognitive computing power of IBM Watson. Powered by IBM Watson, AHA, IBM, and Welltok will create a new offering that combines AHA's science-based metrics and health assessments with cognitive analytics, delivered on Welltok's health optimization platform. The effort is intended to help alleviate the burden of cardiovascular diseases, which
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IBM, Nutrino Unveils Watson-Powered Nutrition App for Expectant Moms-to-Be
IBM Watson Health today announced that it is partnering with Nutrino to offer a first-of-its-kind, Watson-powered nutrition app for expectant mothers-to-be. The Nutrino App combines Nutrino’s nutrition insights platform with Watson’s natural language capability and deep question and answer capability to offer personalized meal recommendations and 24/7 nutritional support.
The National Institutes of Health estimate that in the U.S. nearly four million women have babies each year. According to
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Welltok Rolls Out Watson-Powered CafeWell Platform to IBM Employees
Welltok is offering a Watson-powered version of the CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ to IBM employees, leveraging the power of cognitive computing to help revolutionize how IBM manages health resources and engages employees. For IBM employees, Welltok's CaféWell platform organizes IBM's 36 disparate partners, including five health insurance carriers, flexible spending accounts and retirement programs. The integration will allow employees the ability to access a single, engaging and
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IBM Acquires Merge Healthcare To Enhance Medical Images in Watson
IBM has announced plans to acquire Merge Healthcare, a provider of medical image handling and processing, interoperability and clinical systems designed to advance healthcare quality and efficiency for $1 billion. The acquisition will bring IBM Watson's advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare medical imaging management platform to surface new insights from a consolidated, patient-centric view of current and historical
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CVS To Leverage IBM Watson Health To Predict Patients at Risk for Declining Health
CVS Health has announced it will leverage IBM Watson Health's predictive analytics and cognitive computing to transform care management services for patients with chronic disease. The partnership will enable health care practitioners, including those across the CVS Health enterprise, to use Watson to advance care management beyond programs and services typically available today. IBM did not disclose the financial terms of the partnership.
CVS Health/IBM Watson Health Partnership
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