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future, healthcare, IBM
Posted date:
September 20, 2011
IBM is currently working on new solutions based on their supercomputer Watson to help doctors with faster and more accurate diagnoses.
According to IBM: "While healthcare organizations are amassing vast amounts of data, multiple versions of the truth producing errors in hospital, patient care and payment processes. Physicians have been on information overload for decades, contributing to the estimated 15% of diagnoses that are inaccurate or incomplete (Harvard Business Review, April, 2010). We don't understand why medicine works for one patient but not another. And growing shortages of nurses...
Excellent article de mobihealthnews on "How camera phones can automate healthcare". The same company behind the technology that allows bank customers to deposit checks by camera phone i snow entering the healthcare business.
Mitek Systems is offering its mobile imaging technology through an API so the developpers of smartphone applications can automate the complete paper based process. Take a picture of your docs and you're done!
Read the complete article here