Introduction
IBM Watson introduced as “question answering machine.” It has capability to understand and study numbers of data better than human, also it decrease healthcare prices. Watson is one of the fastest artificial intelligence, which comes out as winner against formers player Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. Watson win first prize $1 million and it has created history in 2011. IBM Watson named after first the CEO and well-known businessman Thomas J. Watson. According to IBM Watson research team, the sources of information for Watson can “include encyclopedias, dictionaries, articles, literary works, and thesauri.” Watson doesn’t have Internet access. However, in healthcare, professionals find Watson more effective to give safer patient care, because after doctors published a query to system, it can identify the most significant part of information.
This information uses for study medicine instructor, automatic health documentation data, records from doctors, and patient information. The goal of Watson is to present the results in an easy way to making decision throughout a variety of industries, but in healthcare industries, it helps to diagnosis type of cancer. According to ManojSaxena, “we’ve decided to focus first on breast, lung and colon cancer as the three to apply Watson to. Also, 90% of nurses in the field who use Watson now follow its guidance (Saxena). Watson presented its “first commercial application in February 2013.” The presentation is going to be helpful to make decision while treating lung cancer or different type of cancer, which started at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Watson explores the patient’s medical background and history of medications, and other current situations since it can revi...
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The advantage of Watson is that medical students don’t need to memorize books because it provides much information while looking for evidence. The fact is that it will not swap judgment, but it helps the decisions more estimate for medical professions. Watson has ability to go back to deceases history of patient with in few seconds, so Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center starts looking up solutions for lung cancer. Watson includes treatment instructions, such as medical record data, which address difficult situations and helping doctors to analysis treatment in better and fast way. Therefore, Watson-Cleveland Clinic Project will turn out to be a paradigm change in how physicians practice medicine; although Watson would “not replace the clinical judgments but it could help the decisions more evaluate in the soundness of medical decisions” in the near future.
When brothers Sidney and Stanley Goldstein partnered with Ralph Hoagland in Lowell Massachusetts in 1963, they were unaware of the nationwide impact that CVS would have on the retail drug industry today. Just six years after establishment, Goldstein and Hoagland sold to Melville Corporation and began acquiring companies including Revco, Prescription Health Services, People’s Drug and Eckerd Health Services. This led to an increase in sales reaching one billion dollars in 1985 as well set the bar for all pharmaceutical companies within the United States.
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The cloud computing is still under development but if it can manage to maintain information privacy and confidentiality than it will become revolutionary in healthcare field. And we never know, in future science and technology might introduce more advanced level of apps and service with enhanced level of privacy and security measures.
Then, comes the expansion of treatment and the process that it takes for patients, especially in comparison with patient populations increase. Although, the technological improvements in quality and its capabilities has also enabled a better patient outcome. The perspective and the scope of medicine has magnificently pushed the limits and boundaries. Mental illnesses and substance abuse have taken over our decade and technology has provided so many diagnosis to undeterminable diseases before that it has become an
As the digital health innovation partner at Avanteo Consulting, I worked on projects to frame cancer care challenges and needs, and solve complex problems to inform decision-making in patient monitoring strategies, symptom reporting solutions and learning healthcare system. Cognitive technology research also includes a review of IBM Watson applications that accelerate cancer research, predict new drug targets and guide oncologists on the best cancer treatment plans for individual patients.
The Creative Destruction of Medicine is a book written by Eric Topol, who is a M.D. He is one of the most top citied researchers in medicine and was named Modern Healthcare’s #1 Most Influential Physician Executive in Healthcare in 2012 (Topol, 2012). This book explains how the future of medicine will change dramatically from what it what was then and how it is now. The book is split into three different parts. Part I is “Setting the Foundation” where it explains where the technology began and how it has changed in the modern day. Part II is “Capturing the Data” explains the different ways that modern day technology can show what is wrong with a patient easier and more convenient than ever before. Part III is “The Impact of Homo Digitus” here
We as nurses rely on technology, but we also have been taught to beware technology from making judgments for our nursing car. We know that technology can be wrong or mess up just like a human; therefore, we must always be knowledgeable and question our practice, to ensure safe nursing. Technology has pros and cons just like the human person does. “Storing clinical data, translating clinical data into information, linking clinical data and domain knowledge, and aggregating clinical data” is a helpful and time saving use of technology (Yoder-Wise, 2015). However, technology sometimes take precious time away; for example, a study found that “nurses spend up to 40% of their workday meeting ever-increasing demands from the systems in which they work” (Yoder-Wise, 2015). Technology also brings up an “ethical dilemma” as to when and how to use “extraordinary means to prolong life for patients with limited or no decision making capabilities” (Yoder-Wise, 2015). When is technology prolonging pain and hindering a peaceful natural death. Other issues like, “safeguarding patient’s welfare, privacy, and confidentiality” have been called into question with use of patient information in the computer systems (Yoder-Wise, 2015). There has to be safety parameter to protect patients according to HIPPA law, for example firewalls (Yoder-Wise, 2015). However, computerized patient information has also been a live saver and time saver because “provider order entry” is more clearly written,
Named after IBM’s first CEO Thomas J. Watson, Watson is a supercomputer able to answer questions posed in natural language. It first became famous in early 2011 for beating a couple of the best players of Jeopardy in a 3 day streak game. He beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the first had 74 winnings in a row and the second had earned a total of $3.25 million. At the time Watson was about the size of a room. It was hot and very noisy because of the cooling systems. He was represented in the room by a simple avatar. Today, Watson has changed a lot. Now it is more business friendly and has lost a lot of weight. From a Jeopardy winning computer it has become a successful commercialized supercomputer. In the following chapters I will talk about its origins, its actual situation and a little bit about its future.
“According to the General Accounting Office, more than half of the prescription drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1976 and 1985 caused serious side effects that later caused the drugs to be either relabeled or removed from the market. Drugs app...
Polypharmacy among the elderly is a growing concern in U.S. healthcare system. Patients who have comorbities and take multiple medications are at a higher risk for potential adverse drug reactions. There is a great need for nursing interventions in conducting a patient medication review also known as “brown bag”. As nurses obtain history data from patients at a provider visit, the nurse should ask “what medications are you taking?” and the answer needs to include over-the-counter medications as well. If the response does not include any medications other than prescribed meds, it is incumbent upon the nursing professionals to question the patient further to ensure that no over-the-counter medications or supplements are being consumed. This is also an opportunity for the nurse to question about any adverse reactions the patient may be experiencing resulting from medications. Polypharmacy can result from patients having multiple prescribers and pharmacies, and patients continuing to take medications that have been discontinued by the physician. Nurses are in a unique position to provide early detection and intervention for potentially inappropriate medications and its associated adverse drug reactions.
Doctors can prescribe drugs that can be as addicting as street drugs. When a patient is at the hospital, doctors will prescribe many drugs to help the patient get better, like ...
Upbin, Bruce. "IBM's Watson Gets Its First Piece Of Business In Healthcare." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 08 Feb. 2013. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
Nursing Informatics is important to the nursing profession since nurses’ work in information-intensive environment. The advanced technology available in recent years allows nurses to collect data from patents, share the information with other nurses and healthcare providers to provide better care and knowledge that can be gather from the information. Information can be used in clinical care, teaching environments, billing and other environments, with regards to privacy policies. The advancement in technology is allowing nurses to spend more time caring for their patients rather that spending time documenting incidents. New devices and applications are allowing patents and other healthcare providers to provide better care by allowing them to
It is a type of artificial intelligence program that imitated the analytical skills and understanding of human experts. By 1985, the artificial intelligence market had come up to one billion dollars; moreover, around the same time, Japan’s fifth generation computer project motivated the British and American government to bring back funding for artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the artificial intelligence market fell back into disrepute which started with the fall of the Lisp Machine market. Additionally, this was a much longer “AI winter”. Soon, in the late 1900s and in the beginning of the 21st century, artificial intelligence was starting to be utilized for data mining, medical diagnosis, and in other areas as well as logistics. All this success was because of the increasing computational power, new relationships between other fields and artificial intelligence, higher significance on answering specific issues, and a commitment by researchers to scientific standards as well as mathematical methods. For example, on May 11th, 1997, Deep Blue (an IBM computer) was the first computer that played chess and it beat the ruling world chess champion at that time, Garry Kasparov. This was the beginning of an amazing discovery, artificial intelligence. Faster computers, able to obtain huge amounts of information, and statistical and advanced methods allowed progress in perception and machine learning. By the midyear of 2010, machine learning programs were utilized in the entire world. For example, Watson (IBM’s question answering system) beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the two greatest champions of Jeopardy, in a Jeopardy exhibition match by huge amounts. Another example is of the Kinect. It gives a 3D body-motion interface for the Xbox One and the Xbox 360 using algorithms that surfaced from long artificial research. Soon, 2015 came. According to
The nursing field has experienced plenty of advancements both in technology and medicine since the twentieth century. Not only have these advancements changed the face of nursing but have also become an intricate part of the field. Technology has the capacity to improve patient care and outcomes and is therefore of great importance to nursing. How nurses manage clinical workflows and how they deliver patient care have been completely changed by various innovations in software. The rationale used in selecting the topic of advances in nursing is that the world is fast evolving and so is the healthcare sector. Extensive analysis and synthesizing of knowledge, interpretation of information, research and innovations in nursing has been done over the years. It is interesting to have an in-depth look at what has been done by various influencers in the profession. Purpose of this paper is to demonstrate both technological and medical advancements in the nursing field.