Medical image handling and processing in our digital age.
The combination of machine learning and cognitive computing, artificial intelligence
components and the cloud technologies are now a game changer when it comes to
inter alia:
- to unlock the value of medical images to help physicians make better patient care decisions,
- Manage a growing body of medical images,
- surface new insights from a consolidated, patient-centric view of current and historical images, electronic health records, data from wearable devices and other related medical data, in a HIPAA-enabled environment,
- Help healthcare providers in fields including radiology, cardiology, orthopedics and ophthalmology to pursue more personalized approaches to diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of patients.
Connectikpeople.co salutes the IBM’s strategy to add rich image analytics
with deep learning to the Watson Health platform.
The new acquisition of Merge is IBM’s third major health-related acquisition,
following Phytel (population health) and Explorys (cloud based healthcare
intelligence).
IBM plans to leverage the Watson Health Cloud to unlock actionable new
opportunities to improve patient diagnostics and help deliver enhanced care.
