Q&A: AMA’s Dr. James Madara on Data and Healthcare
In the build up to HIMSS18, Watson Health caught up with Dr. James Madara, CEO and Executive Vice President of the American Medical Association (AMA) to hear about his views on the impact of data on healthcare delivery. Madara also discusses the AMA’s efforts to unleash a new era of better, more effective patient care. As head […]
Turning Data into Insights for Healthcare Providers
Early in my career, when I was a physician in inner-city Baltimore, it was always a struggle to give each patient the time he or she deserved. Time, as we know in medicine, is precious. It is the part of our job that is the most important, the most human, and the most crucial for […]
How Services Integration Helps Europeans Advance in a Multivendor World
A rising trend in Europe has businesses and government agencies flocking to new ‘services’ integration solutions rather than traditional ‘systems’ integration to better manage increasingly diverse workloads and platforms. Such solutions are bringing order to the modern multivendor IT environment, helping organizations consolidate IT management more efficiently, and providing greater visibility across discrete servers, networks, […]
The Value of Focusing on Customer Centricity
One competitive factor that is defining our popular products and services today is personalization. Across all elegantly designed consumer device, AI and cloud-based apps fill our screens with top picks across channels based on our preferences. Customer centricity is winning the day. Discriminant analysis of the largest ever IBM Global C-suite study reveals that one […]
Study: Incumbent Companies to Lead New Digital Disruption
For the first time since the rise of the Internet, the epicenter of global market disruption has shifted. Up until very recently, the conventional wisdom has been that big, mature companies were on the defensive and at risk of being disrupted – and supplanted – by startups and digital challengers. Of course, there was some […]
The Story Behind IBM’s Veterans Training Week
After separating from the military, U.S. service members deserve much more than our thanks. They deserve our support. Companies and organizations across the country should develop quality, no-cost training to help our service members develop in-demand skills – skills that can smooth the transition from military to civilian life and open doors of opportunity. By […]
Watson Hops On Board Human Space Flight
In June, German astronaut Alexander Gerst will embark on his second six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS), serving as station commander in the second half of his stay. On this mission, Gerst and his team will receive some unusual support: CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) will be on board – a medicine ball-sized […]
Scaling the AI Ladder
The first automobile was driven down the streets of Detroit in 1890. It would take another 30 years before Henry Ford streamlined production and made cars available to the mass market. The obvious lesson: sometimes technology has a long gestation period, before we can scale it for everyday use. But, digging a bit deeper, there […]
Jumpstarting Careers, Educational Opportunities with Blockchain
The world was a different place in 1979, the year I graduated from Albany State University, in Albany, Ga. When I began my career that year at IBM, I was testing diskettes – a technology that’s foreign to most college students today. Over the course of a 39-year career, I’ve seen the technology sector undergo […]
The Science Behind IBM’s Data Science Design
Data science is a rapidly evolving discipline that leverages an ever-widening array of tools and capabilities to learn and exploit. Because of such inherent complexities surrounding adoption, integration and support, the work of the data scientist can be daunting. That complexity is one of the reasons IBM several years ago set out to bring clarity […]
How Blockchain is Bringing Trust to Digital Ad Buys
It used to be so simple. The supply chain behind a ‘media buy’ was made up of three main players – client, agency and media property – and each type of media came with a single measurement source. But the digital era is making that model obsolete, like rabbit ears or appointment-viewing TV. In today’s […]
AI in the Fight Against Malaria
Bed nets, insecticides and repellents are all effective intervention strategies to control the spread of malaria, but with a continuously dwindling budget, how can public officials and policy makers know what to use, where and when, to be most effective? Malaria is caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected […]