If you saw IBM’s supercomputer, “Watson,” challenge two of “Jeopardy’s” all time winners, you know that the “machine” made some goofy gaffs, but in the end, smoked the competition.  Now, IBM is partnering with WellPoint (Indianapolis, IN, an independent Blue Cross/Blue Shield licensee) to have Watson interrogate patient data and come up with a medical diagnosis as an answer.  Next year, WellPoint with run several pilot demonstrations of Dr. Watson.       MORE

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