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IBM creates Watson Health to analyse medical data

NEW YORK — IBM is taking its Watson artificial intelligence technology into healthcare in a big way with industry partners, a pair of acquisitions and an ambitious agenda.

The IT giant said on Monday it will initially partner with Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic for its Watson Health business unit. After the close of trading, IBM also announced it would buy two start-ups: Explorys, a spin-off from the Cleveland Clinic whose data on 50 million patients is used to spot patterns in diseases, treatments and outcomes; and Phytel, a Dallas maker of software to manage patient care and reduce readmission rates to hospitals.

IBM will deploy its Watson technology as a cloud-based service that taps vast stores of health data and delivers tailored insights to hospitals, physicians, insurers, researchers and potentially even individual patients.

“We are going to enable personalised healthcare on a huge scale,” said Mr John Kelly, a senior vice-president who oversees IBM’s research labs and new initiatives
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