Watson Health

Medtronic launches smartphone connectivity for CGMs, insulin pumps
By Jonah Comstock | 11:13 am | September 29, 2015
Medtronic has launched its MiniMed Connect system, which allows people with diabetes who use both a Medtronic continuous glucose monitor (CGM) and a Medtronic insulin pump to see data from both device on their smartphone, and send it to their caregiver.
IBM's Watson Health opening brings partnerships, launches, and skepticism
By Jonah Comstock | 11:49 am | September 14, 2015
IBM's new health-focused venture, Watson Health, opened its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, amid the same kind of flurry of announcements and partnerships that marked its launch last April.
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.
Six new health-related initiatives for IBM's Watson
By Jonah Comstock | 11:37 am | May 11, 2015
Since IBM launched its Watson Health business unit last month, the company has been busy, announcing a flurry of partnerships and deployments of its cognitive computing software in different sectors of the healthcare industry.
IBM Watson launches health unit, acquires two companies, and teams up with Apple, Medtronic, J&J
By Jonah Comstock | 12:05 pm | April 14, 2015
IBM Watson has taken a giant step deeper into the healthcare industry with the formation of a new business unit called Watson Health and a new cloud offering called the Watson Health Cloud.