IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1 Billion
ByIBM’s deal with Merge Healthcare will combine Watson’s image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge’s medical imaging platform.Credit IBM
IBM is adding medical images to the health data its Watson artificial-intelligence can mine to help doctors make diagnoses.
The big technology company announced on Thursday morning that it was buying Merge Healthcare, a medical-imaging software company, for $1 billion. When IBM set up its Watson health business in April, it began with a couple of smaller medical data acquisitions and industry partnerships with Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. Last week, IBM announced a partnership with CVS Health, the large pharmacy chain, to develop data-driven services to help people with chronic ailments like diabetes and heart disease better manage their health…
IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1 Billion