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Six ways IBM is putting Watson to work in hospitals
By Jonah Comstock | 11:56 am | November 10, 2015
Since IBM launched its Watson Health business unit at HIMSS last year, the group has pushed out plenty of news -- mostly partnerships, acquisitions, and the opening of Watson Health's Cambridge office.
With $1B Merge buy, IBM hopes to open Watson's eyes to medical imagery
By Jonah Comstock | 01:05 pm | August 06, 2015
IBM has finalized plans to acquire Merge Healthcare for $1 billion, in the hopes that assets from the medical imaging software company can teach IBM's cognitive computing unit Watson to "see" medical images.