The Journal of mHealth Vol 2 Issue 4 (August) | Page 8

Fuelling a New Generation of Health Insights
IBM's most sophisticated data analytics
capabilities.

Continued from page 5

Innovative
partners
including
Welltok, Modernizing Medicine, Pathway
Genomics
and
GenieMD
are already
u s i n g
Watson’s
cognitive
computing capabilities,
giving rise
to a whole
new breed
of
health
apps
that
are redefining
how individuals
and organisations
think about personal health management. Cognitive computing systems learn and
interact naturally with people
to extend what either humans or
machine could do on their own. They
help human experts make better decisions by
penetrating the complexity of Big Data.
“Watson Health builds on years of collaborative
relationships with leaders across the healthcare
ecosystem,” said Michael Rhodin, senior vice
president, IBM Watson. “The ground breaking
applications of Watson’s cognitive computing
capabilities by medical clients and partners clearly demonstrate
the potential to fundamentally change the quality, efficiency and
effectiveness of healthcare delivery worldwide. We’re excited to
broaden access to world-class technology and to work with our
partners to transform health and wellness for millions of people.”
Capturing Real-time Data to Optimise Personalised
Decision-making
IBM is collaborating with Apple, Johnson & Johnson and
Medtronic to create new health-based offerings that leverage
information collected from personal health, medical and fitness
devices. The results will be better insights, real-time feedback
and recommendations to improve everything from personal
health and wellness to acute and chronic care. These relationships are non-exclusive, and IBM anticipates many more companies to leverage the Watson Health Cloud platform.

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IBM and Apple will expand their partnership with IBM Watson
Health Cloud to provide a secure cloud platform and analytics for
Apple's HealthKit and ResearchKit. This will support health data
entered by customers in iOS apps and also arm medical researchers with a secure, open data storage solution with access to

August 2015

Johnson
&
Johnson will
collaborate
with IBM
to create
intelligent
coaching
systems
centred
on preoperative
and postoperative
patient
c a r e ,
including
joint replacement
and
spinal surgery.
Solutions
will
be
mobile-based,
accessing the Watson Health Cloud and
leveraging IBM Watson’s
cognitive capabilities. Johnson
& Johnson will also look to launch
new health apps targeting chronic conditions, which currently cost consumers as much
as 80 per cent of the $7 trillion global healthcare spend.
Medtronic will leverage the Watson Health Cloud
insights platform to collaborate with IBM around
delivery of new highly-personalised care management
solutions for people with diabetes. The solutions will
receive and analyse patient information and data from
various Medtronic devices including insulin pumps
and continuous glucose monitors, and use this information to
provide dynamic, personalised diabetes management strategies
to patients and their providers. n

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