Trends Report

Healthcare Meets Cognitive Computing

Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Healthcare? Slowly

February 13th, 2015
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Skip Snow
With contributors:
Ted Schadler , Diego Lo Giudice , Alex Cullen , Leslie Owens , Abigail Komlenic

Summary

Cognitive computing is finding a foothold in the US healthcare industry, where scientists, doctors, payers, and patients are finding places to use this disruptive technology to optimize care, improve research discovery, and find waste and fraud. For example, tier one providers like Memorial Sloan Kettering and MD Anderson use IBM's Watson technology to give doctors better tools to establish oncology treatment paths. Forrester advises healthcare CIOs to step in now and understand these new scenarios of cognitive computing and the challenges facing this early market. The long-term impact of cognitive computing on healthcare will be massive. This report will help CIOs understand how the technology will appear in cognitive healthcare applications and how best to plan their road maps.

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