Tenet Healthcare is a leading healthcare services company that is dedicated to the improvement of patient outcomes and service delivery. They operate in 47 states, throughout the United States, and offer a wide variety of services ranging from primary to urgent care and advanced diagnostics. Tenet Healthcare manages 74 hospitals, 11 of which are surgical institutions specializing in oncology. They are driven by their mission, “Help people live happier, healthier lives” (Tenet, 2014).
Cognitive Computing and IBM Watson Cognitive Computing is described as adaptive, interactive, iterative, stateful, and contextual platform that is able to process and define ambiguous data.Cognitive computing will be able to process dynamic data and redefine objectives as users change, systems like this are able to learn incrementally as data is added overtime. IBM Watson is a cognitive computing platform that utilizes elements of supervised machine learning. IBM Watson as a product is a neural-network that allows users to build or utilize applications upon Watson’s platform. Watson also provides a software interface for users to interact with the data stored in Watson’s cloud. Developers and …show more content…
Right now, doctors have to go to multiple sources for their research. It’s time-consuming, and time that can be used for much better things. 15% of cancer patients are misdiagnosed at least once (Cancer Statistics, 2018) in the current model of operation. However, with Watson for Oncology, all research will be compiled into the Watson software. Doctors will consult Watson for personalized diagnoses and treatments that take patient records into account. Watson gives its certainty for each suggestion, which will increase the doctor’s certainty and they will have to spend less time researching because Watson ultimately does it for