CAMBRIDGE, MA - 10 Sep 2015: Opening its new IBM Watson Health global headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Deborah DiSanzo is joining the company as the business unit's General Manager, introduced a pair of new cloud services, and revealed major new partnerships all reflecting IBM's commitment to helping advance the quality of health globally.
DiSanzo brings to IBM, its partners and its clients more than 30 years' experience working at the intersection of healthcare and technology, most recently as CEO for Philips Healthcare. She will lead more than 2,000 IBMers, with a mandate to scale the business globally, expand the capabilities of the IBM Watson Health Cloud, and broaden a growing ecosystem that is building on IBM's technology platform. Further, she will oversee a fast growing roster of clients, collaborators and partners that includes marquis relationships with Johnson & Johnson, Apple, Medtronic, Epic, and CVS Health, among others. She will report to IBM Watson Group leader Michael Rhodin.
IBM also expanded its solutions portfolio with the introduction of IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance and IBM Watson Care Manager:
The IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance will help biomedical companies bring medical innovations to market more efficiently. This first-in-class solution will help the companies fast-track the deployment of a GxP compliant infrastructure and applications while adhering to stringent requirements for hosting, accessing and sharing regulated data.
IBM Watson Care Manager is a population health solution that uniquely integrates capabilities from Watson Health, Apple s HealthKit and ResearchKit, a software framework designed by Apple to make it easy for researchers to conduct studies using an iPhone. It allows medical professionals' to factor a broad range of determinants into a personalized patient engagement program, with the intent to vastly improve individual health outcomes.
In addition, IBM announced that Boston Children's Hospital, Columbia University, ICON plc, Sage Bionetworks and Teva Pharmaceuticals will join the roster of industry leaders that are leveraging Watson's capabilities to transform key aspects of the healthcare ecosystem that include drug discovery and development, personalized medicine, chronic disease management, pediatrics, and digital health. They join CVS Health, Medtronic and Yale University, among others. Teva and Sage both announced the Watson Health Cloud is their organizations' preferred development platform.
"Watson Health is driving a new era of technology-driven health, enabling entrepreneurs and industry leaders to address diverse needs, spanning the earliest stages of research all the way through to clinical care and population health through to consumer wellness, said Mike Rhodin, Senior Vice President, IBM Watson Group. The variety of new partners and use cases underscores the flexibility and scalability of the IBM Watson Health Cloud to help leaders rapidly advance the state of the art in health and wellness. Further, IBM Watson Health is building for scale, with partners, offerings and now a worldwide headquarters designed to help global organizations meet the world's pressing health needs.
The opening ceremony also featured demonstrations by health ecosystem partners Best Doctors, Modernizing Medicine, Pathway Genomics, Socrates and Welltok, which showed how Watson is being deployed in solutions such as enabling cost-effective second opinion services, helping optimize physician practice patterns, and supporting consumers' ability to make informed, cost effective medical choices.
IBM Watson Health Attracts Start-Ups and Established Leaders
IBM Watson Health has achieved significant market momentum since it was introduced five months ago. Hundreds of partners, ecosystem members and customers are working with IBM to address unmet needs across the continuum of life sciences and healthcare. New collaborations announced today include:
Boston Children's Hospital has been named Watson Health's foundational pediatrics partner, building on an existing relationship between the two entities. IBM will integrate Watson's deep and iterative question and answer capability to enhance and scale the OPENPediatrics initiative, a ground-breaking BCH initiative which aims to bring life-saving medical knowledge to pediatric caregivers worldwide. Moving forward, BCH and IBM will jointly develop solutions for commercialization, initially pursuing applications in personalized medicine, heart health and critical care with the potential to leverage Watson Genomic Analytics to assist researchers and clinicians in the treatment of rare pediatric disease; apply Watson's image analytics capabilities with the intent to help clinicians improve diagnoses for children facing heart heath conditions; and apply streaming analytics to data from patients on ventilation systems, with the intent to help to medical professionals predict patient decline before it occurs.
Columbia University Medical Center's departments of Pathology & Cell Biology and Systems Biology will collaborate with IBM to test using IBM Watson to help oncologists in the Columbia Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center translate DNA insights into personalized treatment options for patients. Columbia is the 16th cancer center to test the use Watson Genomic Analytics to bring precision medicine to patients worldwide. As Columbia and other institutions evaluate Watson's ability to help clinicians in identifying actionable mutations in cancer, Watson's rationale and insights will continually improve, providing the latest combined wisdom of the world's leading cancer institutes in a scalable, cloud-based solution.
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