knowledge of what the treatments are. most doctors don t 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 patient s information and it draws it from a medical bank, data from somewhere? watson has access to information in all sorts of capacities and shapes and the doctors can give the clues much like the jeopardy! includes. some fever, rash, weight loss and watson takes the clues and provides the evidence for one diagnosis over the other. the electroncal medical record is just the beginning. watson will break it down, look at it from different dimensions, parity history, family history.