Tang still sees patients as a physician, but he’s also chief health transformation officer for IBM’s Watson Health (see "
50 Smartest Companies 2017.") That’s the business group developing health-care applications for Watson, the machine-learning system that IBM is essentially betting its future on. Watson could deliver information that physicians are not getting now, says Tang. It could tell a doctor, for instance, how long it took for patients similar to Tang’s wife to be walking without pain, or climbing stairs. It could even help analyze images and tissue samples and determine the best treatments for any given patient.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-for-ibms-ai-ambitions/
