Have you met Watson? A presentation by Romain FARDELLONEromain.fardellone@gmail.com

Author

Romain Fardellone– International Medical Communication Project Leader

at Servier • Drive organizational transformation relating to multi-

channel marketing strategy• Create innovative services for healthcare professionals

and patients• Define, gather, analyze, and distribute intelligence about

products, competitors and any aspect of the pharmaceutical environment

– CSC, IPSEN Pharm, Lilly– Pharmacist– HEC Paris School of Management

Have you met Watson?

• The supercomputer developed by IBM

• It has learned to– ask questions using

ordinary language,– analyze findings, and– come up with the right

answers in very different environments

Watson has already beaten the best human champions in the American quiz show

Jeopardy!

http://www.kurzweilai.net/md-anderson-cancer-center-taps-ibm-watson-to-power-its-mission-to-eradicate-cancer

Watson uses hypothesis generation andevidence-based learning to support

oncologists as they make decisions.

In tests, Watson successfully diagnosed lung cancer in 90 percent of cases,

compared with 50 percent for doctors.

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/pdf/MSK_Case_Study_IMC14794.pdf

Watson is on iPad

Bloomberg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEOJnn_zlg

So, the question,

“Do you think supercomputer could help human doctors?”,

might have led a famous fictional detective from Baker Street in London to remark:

“Elementary, my dear Watson!”…