After 'Jeopardy!' Watson working on medical diagnoses

-- Allowing a doctor to connect to Watson's database by speaking into a hand-held device, using speech-recognition research and cloud computing;

Isabel has been used at the Orlando Health hospital network in Florida since last fall, and "has had its successes," said Dr. Jay Falk, chief academic medical officer. He said less experienced doctors use it in accordance with the guidance of senior clinicians "who can make some judgments about the likelihood of what's given on the list of diagnoses."

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