CAMBRIDGE, MA - 10 Sep 2015: Opening its new IBM Watson Health global headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced:
- Deborah DiSanzo is joining the company as the business unit’s General Manager, ... 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.......
- introduced a pair of new cloud services -- 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... 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.
- New collaborations announced today include:
- Boston Children’s Hospital has been named Watson Health’s foundational pediatrics partner
- Columbia University Medical Center’s departments of Pathology & Cell Biology and Systems Biology will collaborate with IBM to test....DNA insights into personalized treatment options for patients
- ICON plc is the first global clinical research organization (CRO) to apply Watson to clinical trial matching, tapping into data in the IBM Watson Health Cloud to help its biomedical customers
- Sage Bionetworks’ Open Biomedical Research Platform will be powered by the IBM Watson Health Cloud.... to aggregate, store, curate, and analyze data collected via apps using ResearchKit....“Successful biomedical research requires active participation and data sharing across a wide variety of stakeholders,” said Stephen H. Friend, MD, PhD, president, co-founder and director, Sage Bionetworks
- Teva Pharmaceuticals announced that IBM Watson Health Cloud will serve as Teva’s global technology platform of choice to build solutions designed to help millions of individuals worldwide with complex and chronic conditions such as asthma, pain, and neurodegenerative diseases....
- IBM Watson Health Global Headquarters Established in Cambridge Life Science Hub
Unveiled today,
- Watson Health’s global headquarters are located at 75 Binney Street in Cambridge’s Kendall Square
- will serve as a home base for more than 700 IBM employees
- will provide technology, tools and talent to create and launch new products and businesses based on Watson's cloud-delivered cognitive intelligence.
- IBM intends to open an interactive Watson Health Experience Center in Cambridge, which will serve as a place for IBM clients to undertake immersive leaning about Watson and how it can help transform their businesses.
- In addition, IBM Research will establish a dedicated Health Research lab at the headquarters, deepening IBMs decades-long commitment to investigation that informs new IBM offerings.....
- Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing capability representing a new era in computing. The system, delivered through the cloud, analyzes high volumes of data, understands complex questions posed in natural language, and proposes evidence-based answers. Watson continuously learns, gaining in value and knowledge over time, from previous interactions.
- In April 2015, the company launched IBM Watson Health and the Watson Health Cloud platform. The new unit will help improve the ability of doctors, researchers and insurers to innovate by surfacing insights from the massive amount of personal health data being created daily. The Watson Health Cloud allows this information to be de-identified, shared and combined with a dynamic and constantly growing aggregated view of clinical, research and social health data.
