Why Doctors Want A Computerized Assistant For Cancer Care
"Speed matters, given how fast cancer can spread. Information overload is a particular challenge.
"Cancer is not giving you the luxury of time," says Ajay Royyuru, the director of IBM's Healthcare and Life Sciences Research. And, he adds, there are "more papers published in each year than cancer researchers can read and remember."
In contrast, IBM's supercomputer Watson, famous for defeating former champions in Jeopardy! in 2011, is able to read "800 million pages per second ... from medical literature to patient records to doctors' notes," according to Christine Douglass at IBM Watson Health."
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