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The Department of Health and Human Services has formed a new workgroup, charged with “identifying key considerations to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health information technology (Health IT), including mobile medical applications.” The group has been selected by HHS and the FCC and will report to the Health IT Policy Committee which advises [...] Read More...

When IBM’s Watson supercomputer took down Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings just about two years ago, IBM let slip that Watson’s next gig would be as a voice-enabled physician’s assistant. Now IBM is giving us a little more information, releasing a video demo that shows how Watson might help an oncologist diagnose and treat a cancer [...] Read More...

About 12 years ago engineers at IBM began to sketch out an idea for a weight loss application that rewarded employees for eating healthy food, according to a recent report in the New York Times. The article follows the story of the patent IBM secured late last year for this long-awaited healthy eating rewards application. One [...] Read More...

One year after competing on the game show Jeopardy!, IBM is on the fast track to commercializing the deep question and answer technology for the healthcare industry. The nation's largest insurer, WellPoint, is already using the Watson technology on several pilots. To help IBM further its development to meet the changing demands of the healthcare industry, IBM today named the IBM Watson Advisory Council made up of leading experts from the field of medicine and technology. Here's the press release: IBM Forms Watson Healthcare Advisory Board ARMONK, N.Y., March 1, 2012 – IBM today announced...

The long-awaited boom in home-based, wireless health monitoring devices might happen sooner rather than later. In fact, Dr. Andrew Watson, medical director of the UPMC Center for Connected Medicine in Pittsburgh, believes that it will start in the next six to 12 months. “Right now, the devices are so close,” Watson says. And the biggest driver [...] Read More...