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IBM Watson ·      Watson  is a  question-answering  computer system capable of answering questions posed in  natural language , developed in  IBM 's DeepQA project by a research team led by  principal investigator   David Ferrucci . ·      Watson was named after IBM's first CEO, industrialist  Thomas J. Watson . ·      Watson was created as a  question answering  (QA) computing system that IBM built to apply advanced  natural language processing ,  information retrieval ,  knowledge representation ,  automated reasoning , and  machine learning  technologies to the field of  open domain question answering . ·      The key difference between QA technology and document search is that document search takes a keyword query and returns a list of documents, ranked in order of relevance to the query (often based on popula...

10 COMMON APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN HEALTHCARE According to a 2016 report from CB Insights, about 86% of healthcare provider organizations, life science companies, and technology vendors to healthcare are using artificial intelligence technology. By 2020, these organizations will spend an average of $54 million on artificial intelligence projects.  So what solutions are they most commonly implementing? Here are 10 common ways AI is changing healthcare now and will in the future. 1. Managing Medical Records and Other Data            Since the first step in health care is compiling and analyzing information (like medical records and other past history), data management is the most widely used application of artificial intelligence and digital automation. Robots collect, store, re-format, and trace data to provide faster, more consistent access. 2. Doing Repetitive Jobs          ...

Topic: Implementing Interoperability of Antimicrobial Resistance System This topic was discussed in the open spaces and the topic’s owner was Mauro Tubin. It was quite an interactive session.   The importance of Implementing an Interoperable Antimicrobial Resistance system was discussed, how they were getting about with it and the challenges they face. Accurate estimates of the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are needed to establish the magnitude of this global threat in terms of both health and cost, and to paramaterise cost-effectiveness evaluations of interventions aiming to tackle the problem. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of a microorganism to stop an antimicrobial from working against it. As a result, standard treatments become ineffective, infections persist and may spread to others. There should be a surveillance to get the specific data. The data needs to be mobilized regarding patients (testing and diagnostics), animals and fo...

Health Data Collaborative Digital Health & Interoperability Global Goods Workshop Who they are Health Data Collaborative is an inclusive partnership of international agencies, governments, philanthropies (goodwill to fellow members of the human race; especially: active effort to promote human welfare) , donors and academics, with the common aim of improving health data. The Health Data Collaborative is not a formal partnership. They operate with a light, nimble governance structure, based on a shared vision that by working together to strengthen country information systems, they can contribute meaningfully to better decision-making and better health. Nor is the Health Data Collaborative a fund. It is not directly responsible for financing health information systems, but for bringing countries, donors and other partners together to make sure investments are made in the most efficient and effective way. What they do Goal: Better Data. Better Health. The...

Here's good YouTube video by  NCBI on using MeSH for a focused PubMed query. Here's another useful video on the same topic:

Blockchains What is a blockchain?  ▪A growing list of records, called  blocks , which are linked sing cryptography ▪Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous lock, timestamp, and transaction data ▪Invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public transaction ledger of the cryptocurrency bitcoin ▪Three main components: a distributed network, a shared ledger and digital transactions  Characteristics of a blockchain ▪       An open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way ▪       Is resistant to modification of the data ▪       Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without alteration of all subsequent blocks Uses of blockchain ▪       Cryp...