{"id":119845,"date":"2021-02-21T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/ibms-retreat-from-watson-highlights-broader-ai-struggles-in-health"},"modified":"2021-02-21T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:25:59","slug":"ibms-retreat-from-watson-highlights-broader-ai-struggles-in-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/ibms-retreat-from-watson-highlights-broader-ai-struggles-in-health","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Retreat From Watson Highlights Broader AI Struggles in Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibms-retreat-from-watson-highlights-broader-ai-struggles-in-health.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM spent several billion dollars on acquisitions to build up Watson. Former senior IBM executive John Kelly once touted the initiative as a \u201cbet the ranch\u201d move. It didn\u2019t live up to the hype. Watson Health has struggled for market share in the U.S. and abroad and currently isn\u2019t profitable.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The decision to put its flagship Watson Health business up for sale underscores the wider challenge tech companies face in healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM spent several billion dollars on acquisitions to build up Watson. Former senior IBM executive John Kelly once touted the initiative as a \u201cbet the ranch\u201d move. It didn\u2019t live up to the hype. Watson Health has struggled for market share in the U.S. and abroad and currently isn\u2019t profitable. The decision to put its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}