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Knowledge of what the treatments are. most doctors dont have the time to look up all the things they need to look up. so watson in its current form actually can supply doctors with with answers to their questions that they formulated during the day and with those answers can improve their diagnostic outcomes and their treatment outcomes as well. >> okay. so do you just put in the patients information and it draws it from a medical bank, data from somewhere? >> watson has access to information in...

It will take that and look at reference books, textbooks, a huge breadth of information, knowledge to whats going on with that patient, again, to inform the doctor about the many different possibilities and what evidence to look at to support the right diagnosis or even beyond that looking at the huge variety of treatment options that might exist. >> it sounds like watson can do everything really but operate and can watson operate or will it happen in the future? >> no, i dont think youre going ...

>> for us, we have been working with speech for years and we have introduced clinical langle "wall street journal" and understanding. today we have approximately 50% of the physicians in the u.s. use our technology. so we have found a way through speed, accuracy the physicians say, hey, this helps me deliver patient care. this is a value add. i just see watson being an extremely valuable expansion to that. >> my next question for dr. ferucci, where did the name watson come from and what applicat...

Doctors have used computers to help make decisions for decades. we know that. how is this one different? >> well, i think this one is different because it directly impacts something that everyone wants to directly impact in the u.s. which is the cost of care and the quality of care. and what watson will allow us to do is get the best evidence, up the moment evidence, in the hands of the clinicians. we have demonstrated we can figure out how to get technology embedded into a physician workflow so...

Panel. watson is considering many, many possibilities just as you might do if you were working a diagnosis or coming up with treatment options. watsons collecting evidence from many, many different source, evaluating it, combining it, and deciding whats most likely the right answer here. >> okay. lets talk a more here about medicine. well go to dr. chase. according to the institute of medicine 98,000 people die interest medical errors in hospitals. its the fifth leading cause of death in the u.s...

This. >> thanks to all of you. >> thank you. >> for links to ibms watson website go to the facebook account and the twitter feed. head to alis blog. all the information is there. very interesting stories. lets turn now to politics. its time for the political ub date. another senator retired this year and the tea party picked its keynote speaker for the next big gathering. paul steinhauser joins me live from washington. hey, paul. >> hey, john. a busy afternoon in politics. we just confirmed that...

This can help, technical support, customer service, financial services. anywhere you want access to knowledge buried in huge volumes of text. you want to collect it, psalm rise, analyze and make better decisions. >> so we used to watch "the jetsons" and see the flying cars. everyone thought we would be going around in flying cars and there would be robots. is this what robots have evolved to? >> everyone who knows me knows i loved astroboy. but watson will be the evidence on the go. the clinicia...

New ideas in innovations and one of our favorite big is is watson the computer. watson put the smackdown on two mew man contestants on "jeopardy!" take a look. >> we are looking at brand stoker and we find who is braham stoker and the wager? and a two-day total of $77,147. >> who knew you could be riveted by watching a computer on television. so in the battle of man versus the machine, the machine won on this one. lets really compare the two here. "usa today" published a great comparison. watson...

Power ibm has 2,800. humans have 1 billion neurons. and computations per second watson has 200 trillion. humans have 100,000 trillion. i cant even imagine that number. watson has us beat on memory. watson is big and bad. we were riveted when we watched him, those of us who did watch him. its not just about game show antics. there are very real medical uses for this technology. i want to bring in ibms chief sicientist for watson and dr. herbert chase, a professor of clinical medicine at columbia ...