IBM Watson Health announced that its Watson for Oncology program, trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, will be rolled out to 21 hospitals throughout China. The initial 21-hospital introduction is the beginning of a multi-year partnership through which IBM’s Chinese partner Hangzhou CognitiveCare will introduce Watson for Oncology to hospitals across China.
CareMore Health System announced a partnership with the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine to “study novel approaches to caring for high-cost, high-need patients and to train the next generation of leaders in health care delivery and implementation science.” The CareMore-Gehr Fellowship will “create a pipeline of clinicians with the skills to be effective health system leaders in the years ahead,” CareMore President Dr. Sachin Jain said in a statement. “There has been a lot of discussion about how to create ‘learning’ health systems, and a program like this may be one way to make this concept a reality.”
Personal health record company Medelinked has partnered with Microsoft to integrate wellness data from the Microsoft Health app and Microsoft Band wearable into its PHR. Data about step counts, workouts, and sleep quality collected via the Microsoft products will be available in Medelinked, an app patients can use to track all their health data to make it easily available to healthcare providers in a crisis or for routine care. Medelinked has previously worked with Garmin Connect, Jawbone UP, Samsung S Health, Nokia/Withings and iHealth.
