IT giant IBM will acquire Merge Healthcare, a medical imaging equipment provider, for $1 billion.
With sales of $227 million, Merge helps doctors and hospitals store and analyze CAT tomography, X-rays, and other medical imaging. IBM plans to integrate Merge's technology into its own Watson artificial intelligence technology.
But can Watson take on this responsibility?
John Kelly, senior vice president of IBM, said that Watson's cognitive computing capabilities can completely distinguish whether patients should receive X-rays, CAT or MRI in medical imaging. The company is now lacking customers and medical imaging materials, which is also the Merge company. Resources that can be provided.
More than 90% of current medical data comes from medical imaging, but most of these data are subject to manual analysis. If you can use artificial intelligence technology to analyze medical images and cross-correlate the images with medical text records, you can greatly reduce the mistakes in medical diagnosis, help doctors accurately diagnose and save patients' lives.
To realize Watson's value in the medical field, IBM has launched a series of major initiatives. In April, it announced the acquisition of Explorys in Cleveland, USA and Phytel in Dallas, and partnered with Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and Apple; in the same month, it partnered with Apple and insurance giant Japan Post to use Apple and IBM. Technology to improve the lives of the elderly; in May, into the medical market, analysis of cancer genetic problems.
IBM's efforts to this end have won people's hearts, but there are still many flaws. The biggest problem is that it can't prove that these efforts can work, and it can't prove to health insurance companies that Watson's investment is worth the money. So the question is: Can Watson really let the patient get an accurate diagnosis? Can the diagnostic problems ignored by traditional radiologists make IBM's computer technology discover?
At present, IBM is full of confidence in Watson's entry into the medical field. Kelly also said that when necessary, he would submit an approval application to the FDA to convince doctors, hospitals, and insurer Watson to be useful in solving medical problems.
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