IBM’s Watson Turned Into Cloud Products With WellPoint Help
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International Business Machines Corp. turned its Watson computer into a virtual assistant to cancer doctors, showing how it’s converting the high-powered machine into a revenue generator.
IBM worked with health insurer WellPoint Inc. and New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to adapt the computer, which beat humans in “Jeopardy!” in 2011, into three commercial products. Watson will answer medical questions from doctors, researchers, medical centers and insurance carriers, the world’s largest computer-services company said today at an event in New York.