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Chronic illness accountsor approximately

STORIES OF A SMARTER PLANET

What makesyou sick?

World population:6.8 billion

o deaths globallyeach year.1

60%2worldwide struggle withchronic illnesses like cancer,heart disease and diabetes.1

billionpeople

Chronic health conditions impact the lives o billions o people aroundthe world each year.

In the U.S. alone,up to 15% of

medical diagnosesare inaccurate orincomplete.2

Digitized medicine in North Americaalone will grow

400% by 2015reaching a total o

14,000 terabyteso data, or

7,500 timesthe data in all U.S. libraries combined.3

Medical knowledge is growing more quickly than doctors can keep up with.

Early and accurate diagnosis has the potential to improve patientsuccess rates, but it can be dicult to establish.

1. Based on the symptoms described,Watson provides probabilities or vepossible diagnoses.

2. Watson then considers explicitly absentsymptoms to reassess these probabilities.

3. Correlating the symptoms with amilyand patient histories, Watson is able torene the hypotheses urther.

4. The process is repeated with a ocus onthe patients current medications.

5. Final probabilities are determined, and

the physician moves on to testing.

Imagine a patient describing her symptoms to a physician who has immediate access toWatson through his laptop.

To give physicians better insight to help improve patient outcomes,WellPoint is pioneering the use oDeepQA technologyotherwiseknown as IBM Watsonin healthcare.

Every patient represents a wide spectrum o variables.

Symptoms

- Fever

- Dizziness

- Abdominalpain

- Back pain

- Cough

Family history

- Diabetes

- Breast cancer

- Colorectalcancer

- Coagulationdisorders

- GravesDisease

Patient history

- Hypertension

- Hyperlipidemia

- Hypothyroidism

- Frequenturinary tractinection

- Smoking

Clinical fndings

- Bloodpressure

- Heart rate

- Restorationrate

- Temperature

- Pain score

Medications

- Pravastatin

- Lasix

- Aspirin

- Chemotherapy

- Antiemetics

Watson: An expert diagnostic system

This groundbreaking system can pore though the equivalent o 200 million pages omedical data and ormulate a response in less than 3 seconds, enabling healthcareproessionals to make more inormed decisions more quickly than ever beore.

NaturallanguageprocessingBreaks down thecommunication barr ierbetween humans andcomputers.

HypothesisgenerationOers variousprobabilities ratherthan attempting asingle right answer.

Adaptationand learningBuilds knowledgeiteratively over time,in much the same waythat humans learn.

WellPoint is using Watson to help physicians become better at whatthey do delivering improved care more quickly and confdentlythan ever beore. The potential o Watson doesnt end there.The same capabilities hold enormous promise or fnancial services,transportation and more.

1 OECD and WHO data.2 Harvard Business Review, 2010.3 Enterprise Strategy Group.

Watsonsdiagnostic confdence

Possibleconditions

Correlatedpatient inormation

Renal ailure

UTI

Infuenza

Esophagitis

Diabetes

Stage 1lung cancer