IBM Watson deals push it deeper into health
01-Jan-16, CIO
IBM's CEO Ginni Rometti has announced two partnerships around Watson, one with medical device maker Medtronic and the other with Under Armour, which is known for sportswear but now also sells connected fitness gadgets.
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Rometti is the first CEO of IBM to give a keynote at CES. She was there to promote Watson's artificial intelligence services, which she claimed are needed to analyze the floods of data generated by all the connected devices at CES.
"Going digital is not a destination, it's a foundation," she said. "What will differentiate you is understanding all that data."
IBM and Medtronic are using Watson's analytics as the back-end for an app which they say could help the roughly 400 million people in the world with diabetes. The app collects data from Medtronic's insulin pumps and glucose monitors, and analyzes it to predict when a diabetic's blood sugar will fall to dangerously low levels, three hours before it happens.