{"id":31519,"date":"2016-10-30T02:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T09:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/ibms-watson-ai-recommends-same-treatment-as-doctors-in-99-of-cancer-cases"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:41","slug":"ibms-watson-ai-recommends-same-treatment-as-doctors-in-99-of-cancer-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/ibms-watson-ai-recommends-same-treatment-as-doctors-in-99-of-cancer-cases","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s Watson AI Recommends Same Treatment as Doctors in 99% of Cancer Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibms-watson-ai-recommends-same-treatment-as-doctors-in-99-of-cancer-cases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watson recommended treatment plans that matched suggestions from oncologists in 99 percent of the cases it analyzed and offered options doctors missed in 30 percent of them. <\/li>\n<li>AI could be revolutionary for healthcare as it can process many more research papers and case files than any human doctor could manage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/?s=Artificial+intelligence\" target=\"_blank\">Artificial intelligence (AI)<\/a> is about more than just the promise of <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2016\/08\/29\/technology\/mark-zuckerberg-italy-town-hall-ai-butler\/\" target=\"_blank\">a robot butler<\/a> \u2014 it can actually save lives. AI\u2019s contribution to the healthcare industry and in medical research could be hugely significant. IBM sees that and wants <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/images\/all-about-ibms-watson-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watson<\/a>, its AI technology, at the forefront of this development.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/ibms-watson-ai-recommends-same-treatment-as-doctors-in-99-of-cancer-cases\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/ibms-watson-ai-recommends-same-treatment...cer-cases\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Watson recommended treatment plans that matched suggestions from oncologists in 99 percent of the cases it analyzed and offered options doctors missed in 30 percent of them. AI could be revolutionary for healthcare as it can process many more research papers and case files than any human doctor could manage. Artificial intelligence (AI) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31519","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49675,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31519\/revisions\/49675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}