You, with IBM.

You, with IBM.

2016 IBM Annual Report

You who run our financial and energy systems; who design, build and fly our planes, run our trains, manage our cities; who cure us, feed us, clothe us, entertain us and keep us safe; who teach our children.

As a professional, you are driven always to advance, and to make a difference through your work. Which is why this moment is so extraordinary for you.

Every profession in every industry in every part of the world is changing, simultaneously. You are drawing on a wealth of new data, knowledge, insights and tools. You are being equipped to rethink your job, and freed to do your life's work.

We have reinvented IBM for this moment--to fuel your dreams with Watson, with IBM Cloud, with deep expertise, with trust. We believe in your ambition to be the best in your profession. And we believe that you can make our world healthier, safer, more productive, more creative, fairer.

That is a world we all want to live in. The world you're building, with IBM.

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Doctors anywhere can know the latest advances everywhere.

Healthcare data is growing 48 percent per year--and will likely exceed 2,300 exabytes by 2020. It pours in from new research, electronic medical records, imaging, wearables and epidemiological monitoring, along with all the environmental factors that affect our health. It can be overwhelming for doctors, but in all that data lie vital clues to the next medical breakthroughs, cures and efficiencies. And now best practices and advanced expertise can go global quickly, changing the very nature of wellness and healthcare.

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1. Oncologists can find more targeted cancer treatment options.

No doctor can keep up with the onrush of oncology studies published every week, much less determine which apply to each patient. But Watson can. Trained for 15,000 hours by specialists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Watson has ingested nearly 15 million pages from relevant journals and textbooks and continues to expand its knowledge.

This expertise is now flowing around the world and informs evidence-based treatment options for clinicians serving patients globally. Sites include six Manipal Hospitals in India, Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, Jupiter Medical Center in Florida and Svet zdravia's network of 16 hospitals in Slovakia and Central and Eastern Europe?and soon across China.

Elsewhere, in trials at the University of North Carolina's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Watson suggested potential treatment options that the tumor board hadn't considered in one third of cases.

In addition, doctors are better able to understand their patients' unique needs, right down to the genetic level. Watson for Genomics absorbs 10,000 new medical articles and details from 100 clinical trials every month. It applies what it learns to suggest highly targeted therapies for each patient's individual cancer based on its understanding of a tumor's molecular profile, allowing doctors to provide more personalized treatment for their patients.

This powerful new tool is helping even those patients who cannot travel to a specialized medical center. Through Quest Diagnostics, it is available to any oncologist in the United States, as an end-to-end solution. Illumina plans to integrate it with a tumor-sequencing workflow to provide oncologists cognitive information on-site.

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2. Medical Researchers can speed discovery of genes that cause diseases.

4. Hospital Administrators can improve the health of the health system.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), has no effective treatment and typically kills within five years. Barrow Neurological Institute researchers employed Watson for Drug Discovery to study nearly 1,500 genes in the human genome, and found five that had never before been associated with ALS. Researchers say that such a discovery, which took months with Watson, would have previously taken years and gives them a much clearer idea of what to target for therapy when developing new drugs.

The Central New York Care Collaborative (CNYCC) is working with Watson Health to create one of the first regional cognitive population health platforms in the United States. It will connect 2,000 care providers in Upstate New York, integrating clinical, social and behavioral data to produce holistic views of patients--helping doctors and clinicians make more-informed decisions and promote healthier behavior. CNYCC's goal is value-based care that reduces emergency room visits and avoidable hospital stays by 25 percent over five years--improving health while lowering Medicaid costs.

6. Veterinarians can now be expert on every breed.

Medical doctors treat one species: humans. Veterinarians may treat dozens of species and an even greater number of cat and dog breeds. And their patients can't describe their symptoms. That's why IBM has worked with vets to build an online tool that uses Watson. It can scan hundreds of thousands of pages of medical resources, helping vets customize treatment options, stay current with best practices and identify medical differences among even very similar breeds.

5. Endocrinologists will help people manage their diabetes between visits.

3. Radiologists can find secrets hidden in every image.

Radiologists review dozens of medical images for every patient they see--often hundreds in a day. Watson never gets eyestrain or momentarily distracted, and has been trained by researchers to rapidly analyze huge numbers of images and rank them for potential anomalies. Radiologists can then focus on the ones that matter and apply their expertise more quickly. Watson can also retrieve similar images from other cases for comparison to help doctors confirm or refine their diagnoses.

People with diabetes will benefit from an app called Sugar.IQ that draws data from physician-prescribed Medtronic devices. The app connects to cognitive analysis in the IBM Cloud to reveal patterns and personalized insights, helping users better understand in real time how their behaviors affect glucose levels. With Watson, a future version is expected to incorporate features that in tests have predicted hypoglycemic incidents within a 2- to 3-hour window with nearly 90 percent accuracy.

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Accuracy predicting hypoglycemic incidents

Watson can help veterinarians treat hundreds of dog and cat breeds with more confidence.

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