IBM has declared its alliance with Apple and other for putting artificial intelligence to use for accumulating probable life-saving insights from the thriving quantity of health data that people’s personal device generates.
IBM has announced that on Monday it is joining forces with Apple, Medtronic and Johnson and Johnson for employing its Watson artificial intelligence system for providing users insights and advice from personal health information that is collected from fitness trackers, smartphones, implants or other devices.
This scheme would be taking advantage of medical records which is progressively becoming more and more digitized and facilitating quick access for patients and healthcare providers for storing and sharing all the necessary information effectively. IBM is hoping for creating a platform where such a sharing process is possible.
Senior Vice President of IBM, John Kelly said in a news release that, “All this data can be overwhelming for providers and patients alike, but it also presents an unprecedented opportunity to transform the ways in which we manage our health.”
“We need better ways to tap into and analyze all of this information in real-time to benefit patients and to improve wellness globally.”
IBM is expecting that more companies should collaborate with this health platform, which it predicts to be expanding worldwide to help improve lives of others.
Additionally, IBM said it is very soon is acquiring a couple of healthcare technology company and establishing an IBM health unit as well.
IBM uses Watson, a cognitive computing system that has beaten human competition in a Jeopardy trivia TV game show. The partnership that they are stepping onto, they will be able to manage data collected via health applications from Apple mobile devices, says IBM.
Apple senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams said in a news release that “Now IBM’s secure cloud and analytics capabilities provide additional tools to help accelerate discoveries across a wide variety of health issues.”
