One of my favorite shows growing up and still to this day is Jeopardy. Back in February of 2011, top Jeopardy contestants were competing against a highly intelligent artificial intelligence computer software program from IBM. The program, Watson, turned out to be too much for the human contestants and beat them.
From this ability to answer random trivia questions, difficult daily doubles, and final jeopardy questions IBM believes that this software could use its "talents" to benefit the healthcare industry. The software, Watson, would be able to revolutionize the healthcare industry by having the ability to quickly search through medical records, clinical documents, and research information for specific answers to help benefit both doctors and patients.
Therefore, it can easily be seen how this software can revolutionize the healthcare industry. The possibilities are endless, but I am going to leave you with one thing related to the field of pharmacy. Someday patients medical records will be able to be accessed from a retail pharmacy, the day this becomes possible questions about the patient may be able to be answered in seconds using this software. This could help revolutionize the field of pharmacy and help promote our professions ability to efficiently manage medication therapy.
http://medgadget.com/2011/02/ibm_watson_could_revolutionize_healthcare.html
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