and HealthCare

[Guest guest]

All this talk about not acting like doctors has reminded me about

something I wanted to share about IBM's . I think will

prove to be a great development for people with rare diseases. I once

heard that learning medicine today is like trying to drink from a fire

hose. There is just to much information to know it all, even in just one

specialty. Many have gotten upset because their doctors were slow to

consider achalasia, or didn't seem to know it even existed. Now imagine

playing a medical version of Jeopardy. Playing with all the data

of the National Library of Medicine and PubMed, the CDC, FDA,

pharmaceutical and medical equipment data, medical encyclopedias and

medical dictionaries and all the other medical databases, including all

that is known about rare diseases, in its data base.

Host: Your choice :

: Dysphagia Patients for 200.

Host: This test was done after a barium swallow produced negative results.

: What is esophagogastroduodenoscopy?

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy 85%

Esophageal Manometry 10%

No test, but send the nut job to a shrink 5%

Host: Correct. Go again .

: Dysphagia Patients for 600.

Host: A patient with this disorder had a negative

esophagogastroduodenoscopy but showed aperistalsis and a dysfunction of

the lower esophageal sphincter.

: Who is an achalasia patient.

Achalasia 80%

DES 6%

CREST 4%

Host: Correct. Your choice.

Now get rid of the Jeopardy board and the style of clues and questions

and you have a medical assistant that has access to all that medical

information your doctor forgot or never knew. Your doctor could provide

a list of symptoms and test results and could provide list of

possible conditions and tests to perform, along with the probabilities

that the conditions or tests are correct, and the evidence for and

against them. could also make a good research assistant locating

relevant papers and data by other researcher.

If you think this sounds like science fiction see:

The IBM Library on YouTube

and HealthCare

http://www.youtube.com/ibm/#p/u/8/uWHG7DMLurE

and Healthcare Analytics

http://masteringdatamanagement.com/index.php/2011/02/24/watson-and-healthcare-an\

alytics/

Enjoy.

notan