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IBM’s Moonshot Ambition In Healthcare
Back in 2015, IBM’s previous CEO, Virginia Rometty famously said that IBM’s “moon shot will be the impact we have on healthcare.” Under the Watson Health banner, the tech company has been leveraging its expertise in cognitive computing to assist medical decision-making. In its wake, Watson Health attracted several partners and made a series of acquisitions to forge ahead of its vision.
But in recent years, the tech giant’s moonshot ambition seems to have waned. It faced management issues and had to lay off part of its Watson Health workforce in 2018. After four years of working on a mission “to eradicate cancer” that cost over $62 million, the MD Anderson Cancer Center severed ties…
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IBM Watson: Why Is Healthcare AI So Tough?
IBM would soon go on to make Watson the centerpiece of its AI strategy. And a big part of this was to focus on healthcare. To this end, the company made several major acquisitions and boosted the headcount of data scientists. But despite all this, the effort ultimately proved to be a disappointment.
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IBM’s Moonshot Ambition In Healthcare
As such, despite its rocky past in healthcare, it looks like IBM is very much still in the game but it is broadening its horizons in the field to demarcate itself from its competitors.
4 lessons from IBM’s failure to transform medicine with Watson Health
The demise of IBM’s Watson Health would be easy to file away as another ill-fated attempt to tackle health care without understanding its complexities. But its downfall offers specific lessons on the implementation of artificial intelligence in an industry still clamoring for new ways to mine mountains of data.
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