Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, New York has partnered with IBM to use its Watson supercomputer. The computer can read 200 million pages of data in three seconds. The computer is programmed to provide suggestions when it is asked a medical question. Additionally the computer is being programmed with the hospital’s electronic records system. This allows it to make medical recommendations tailored to the individual patient’s medical history. “We have formed a partnership with Memorial Sloan-Kettering to develop tools to help improve decision making for diagnosis and therapy in cancer.” – Dr. Martin Kohn, IBM’s Chief Medical Scientist.
