Morning Headlines 8/14/18
Watson Health: Setting the Record Straight
IBM SVP John Kelly rebuts a Wall Street Journal article that called Watson Health’s effectiveness in oncology into question, saying that, “To suggest there has been no patient benefit is to ignore both what we know The Wall Street Journal was told by a number of physicians around the world and these institutions’ own public comments.”
Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce pledge to break down barriers to interoperability at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference in Washington, DC.
Staffers are fleeing as central Maine hospital system is roiled by turmoil
Central Maine Healthcare EVP David Tupponce admits the health system’s Cerner EHR has been a big contributing factor to high physician turnover.
Google DeepMind’s AI can detect over 50 sight-threatening eye conditions
A study conducted at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London reveals that DeepMind’s algorithms can detect over 50 eye conditions with 94-percent accuracy.
Jealous of the 10 figure money feinberg has made as a C- at best leader at Google and Cerner (besides…