Wednesday, April 15, 2015

IBM collaborates With Companies To Improve Healthcare Services

 IBM collaborates With Companies To Improve Healthcare Services


The American high-tech company, International Business Machines Corporation, has decided to employ its resources in the health care sector. IBM news reported that it has collaborated with a number of companies, encompassing Apple Inc., Medtronic Inc., and Johnson & Johnson, to serve the health care sector. All the four partnering businesses have joined to establish Watson Health Data Venture.
This aforementioned venture has been designed to employ the expertise of the modern company in the field of healthcare. Experts have stated that the collaboration aims to make use of the corporation’s highly advanced system to facilitate the patients and health care providers. The Joint efforts of the corporate giants represent the view that the effective use of patient details could play a constructive role in delivering enhanced health care services. Analysts and experts have supported and appreciated the endeavors of the organizations. 
IBM news today highlighted that the health care venture would cut the cost of gathering and organizing healthcare information. Market sources have revealed that the three giants – Apple, Johnson & Johnson, and Medtronic – would be sharing revenue with the corporation on any applications they sell to users. It has been decided that all collaborating businesses would supply health care data to the pool. A privacy-friendly data gathering process has been designed to gather data. Data will be only gathered from patients who have agreed to disclose their information.
IBM breaking news affirms that Apple would be held responsible for supplying information regarding nutrition levels, fitness, and heart rate. Medtronic and Johnson & Johnson would provide data from gadgets for diabetic patients and those recovering from surgery. This venture would be able to improve the relations between the companies and customers. The corporation has decided that it would gather data through Phytel and Explorys, two acquired devices that store clinical details about more than 50,000,000 patients. The gathered data would be used by a health cloud of computers. The cloud would safeguard the data from hackers.
IBM would collaborate with Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic to pioneer healthcare applications for patients. Medical providers would be held responsible for distributing these applications. These applications have been designed to provide information regarding patient progress to the health care provider. In this manner, the joint efforts would contribute in improving the healthcare practices. The American corporation is well known for working in the health care sector as it supplies products to 89 of the world’s top 100 healthcare companies.


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