Armed Forces News

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to use IBM’s Watson supercomputer to pore through medical records and assist caregivers with diagnostics. Watson will not make clinical decisions during the two-year pilot program – that task will remain in the hands of VA doctors. But VA hopes that Watson, which proved its mettle by beating the best champions in the history of the game show “Jeopardy” in 2011, will save considerable time. Care providers, ostensibly, would be able to spend more of shifts meeting with patients instead of scouring medical records.