SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today,
Doctor Evidence, a clinical health research data provider,
announced a content partnership with IBM Watson to contribute
valuable clinical cancer research content to Watson's oncology
solutions and developer ecosystem. The partnership is part of IBM's
work to help the medical community advance patient-centered care
through its new Watson Health unit.
To date, IBM's Watson for Oncology solution has ingested
nearly 15 million pages of medical content, including over 200
medical textbooks and 300 medical journals. Doctor Evidence brings
more than a decade of experience in rigorous evidence-based medical
methodologies and technologies to the Watson Ecosystem. The
organization will contribute 2 million additional data points from
highly structured, peer-reviewed content, including thousands of
clinical papers, conference proceedings, abstracts on remissions,
patient survival cases, epidemiology, and drug label data from the
U.S. and Europe. This medical
information will be added to Watson's existing corpus of health
data that includes content from partners such as the American
Society of Clinical Oncology, Cancer.gov, and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, among others.
"New streams of data represent the fuel that powers Watson and
informs the many partner apps and services created today to help
improve people's health," said Stephen
Gold, Vice President, IBM Watson. "Our partnership with
Doctor Evidence will enable practitioners to apply Watson in ways
that provide new insights and discoveries as they continue to
advance personalized healthcare."
"Our oncology data contains valuable information that could
truly help doctors provide personalized treatment options to their
patients," said Robert Battista, CEO
and co-Founder of Doctor Evidence. "By integrating our data with
the Watson Ecosystem and Oncology Solutions, we hope to make that
information more actionable for clinicians, and we look forward to
seeing how app developers will leverage the high-quality clinical
evidence we supply."
Data provided by Doctor Evidence will also enhance Watson
ecosystem partners' ability to build oncology related apps. Members
of the Watson Ecosystem are bringing a variety of apps to market
designed to address issues across the healthcare spectrum, from
personal health management, to genomic-based health advice, to
dermatology and multiple sclerosis. Developers and entrepreneurs
building Watson apps have the option of leveraging their own
curated data as a corpus of knowledge for Watson, or drawing from
corpuses of data in the IBM Watson Content Marketplace.
About Doctor Evidence
Doctor Evidence is a leader in technological solutions for
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) with a mission to support efforts of
healthcare providers and patients to gain access to important
evidence-based knowledge, based on the most timely and relevant
medical evidence and related analytics, to inform clinical
decisions and improve the health and wellbeing of patients
worldwide. This specialty software and services company's
methodology uses a Digital Outcome Conversion (DOCâ„¢) approach for
transforming data from published clinical studies, epidemiological
databases, and other sources, into reusable and updatable
databases. Visit drevidence.com to learn more.
About IBM Watson: Pioneering a New Era of Computing
Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing
capability representing a new era in computing. The system,
delivered through the cloud, analyzes high volumes of data,
understands complex questions posed in natural language, and
proposes evidence-based answers. Watson continuously learns,
gaining in value and knowledge over time, from previous
interactions. With the help of Watson, developers and partners are
building apps and services that harness the power of cognitive
computing to transform industries, help professionals do their jobs
better, and solve important challenges.
IBM continues to build on its strengths in cognitive computing,
analytics, security and cloud with IBM Watson Health and the Watson
Health Cloud platform. This unit is helping improve the ability of
doctors, researchers, health plans and individuals to innovate by
surfacing new insights from the massive amounts of personal health
data being created daily. The Watson Health Cloud allows this
information to be anonymized, shared and combined with a dynamic
and constantly growing aggregated view of clinical, research and
social health data.
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