Panel: Future of artificial intelligence in patient care (Health Journalism 2012)
Speaker: Martin S. Kohn, M.D., chief medical scientist, IBM
Panel description: Come and learn what the machines are thinking. IBM’s supercomputer Watson beat the humans on Jeopardy! and is now making the rounds of medicine in partnership with a health insurance company. Can a computer diagnose disease? Recommend a treatment? Replace a doctor? In this panel, you’ll hear the experts explain what “artificial intelligence” really means – and what it doesn’t–and learn its role in your local health care system from industry, patient and academic perspectives.
