Telemedicine company Teladoc is using IBM Watson machine learning technology to offer a second opinion to cancer experts. The cognitive computing and learning system searches medical literature for the latest expert opinions. Teladoc Senior Vice President Dan Trencher said: “It would take 29 hours a day for a doctor to stay up to date with the latest medical literature. So obviously it’s impossible and even the best experts in the world can still benefit from having a technology doing that”. million of the opinions sourced so far have suggested a change in diagnosis, and therefore treatment.
Telemedicine company Teladoc is using IBM Watson machine learning technology to offer a second opinion to cancer experts. The cognitive computing and learning system searches medical literature for the latest expert opinions. Teladoc Senior Vice President Dan Trencher said: “It would take 29 hours a day for a doctor to stay up to date with the latest medical literature. So obviously it’s impossible and even the best experts in the world can still benefit from having a technology doing that”. A third of the opinions sourced so far have suggested a change in diagnosis, and therefore treatment.