Cleveland Clinic and IBM announced they will collaborate to advance IBM's Watson artificial intelligence platform for use in medical education applications.
Medical students at Cleveland Clinic will interact with Watson on challenging cases as part of a problem-based learning curriculum and in hypothetical clinical simulations. A collaborative learning and training tool utilizing the Watson technology will be available to medical students to help them learn the process of navigating the latest content, suggesting and considering a variety of hypotheses, and finding key evidence to support potential answers, diagnoses, and treatment options.
Students will be expected to help improve Watson's language and domain analysis capabilities by judging the evidence it provides, and analyzing its answers within the domain of medicine. The collaboration will also focus on leveraging Watson to process an electronic medical record (EMR) based on a deep semantic understanding of the content within an EMR.
