Watson Goes to Work in the Hospital

Watson, the IBM supercomputer that appeared on Jeopardy has a new job. The same kind of analytics platform IBM developed for Watson is being used to help monitor and diagnose babies in Intensive Care Units. Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is using a system called Artemis, which uses the special analytics platform, to collect the data needed to help diagnose these babies. The system can measure the babies blood pressure, temperature, heart rate and breathing rate. It can also access data from medical records, such as the baby’s birth weight.