| Paging Dr. Watson IBM's Watson Supercomputer Now Being Used in Healthcare |
 Journal AHIMA May,02,2014 by:+Howard Lee When IBM announced that they were developing a supercomputing system called "Watson," many fans of literary icon Sherlock Holmes thought of the London-based detective's trusted friend Dr. John Watson-and not the computer's actual namesake, IBM founder Thomas Watson. But the mistake isn't that far off after all, for like Dr. John Watson, IBM's Watson supercomputer is also beginning to practice medicine. Since IBM Watson rose to national fame, and proved itself by competing and winning against all time Jeopardy! game show champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, the supercomputer has moved on to practical applications-including being "taught" to understand the complexities of healthcare. Yes, "Taught," and not programmed, because IBM Watson uses "cognitive computing," a completely different type of computing not found in your desktop PC. Cognitive computing allows users the ability to enter mass quantities of structured and unstructured data from various sources and ask the computer to give back a set of structured answers based only on the most relevant pieces of the data. While it seems like science fiction, and a future answer to the overwhelmingly vast mountains of currently untapped health data, there are pilot programs that have recently launched that use Watson to improve healthcare processes and treatment. Note: This article is being published at AHIMA and at IBM MidSize Insider    IBM MidSize Insider
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 EHR Incentive Program
Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology.
About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program.
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