ARMONK, NY and JUPITER, FL - 1 Feb 2017: IBM (NYSE:
IBM) and Jupiter Medical Center today announced that Jupiter Medical Center
will adopt Watson for Oncology trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering, a
cognitive computing platform to provide insights to physicians to help
them deliver personalized, evidence-based cancer treatment. Jupiter is
the first U.S. community hospital to adopt Watson for Oncology, which
will go live at the facility in the beginning of March.
In the U.S., there will be an estimated 1.7M new cancer cases this year,
with 125,000 in Florida alone(1). As healthcare providers and systems
seek to enable data-driven, evidence-based cancer care, an explosion of
medical information has created both challenges and opportunities to improve
quality care. Currently, approximately 50,000 oncology research papers
are published annually,(2) and by 2020 medical information is projected
to double every 73 days(3), outpacing the ability of humans to keep up
with the proliferation of medical knowledge.
Watson for Oncology provides information to oncologists to help them deliver
evidence-based treatment options by analyzing massive volumes of medical
literature to identify individualized treatment options and scaling access
to oncology expertise. Watson for Oncology draws from more than 300 medical
journals, more than 200 textbooks, and nearly 15 million pages of text
to provide insights about different treatment options and also provides
oncologists with information regarding drug options and administration
instructions. Watson also ranks the evidence-based treatment options,
linking to peer reviewed studies and clinical guidelines. Its machine-learning
capability means it continuously learns, gaining in value and knowledge
over time.
”At Jupiter Medical Center, we are committed to pioneering new approaches
to medicine and health care,” said John D. Couris, President and
CEO of Jupiter Medical Center. “Watson for Oncology is part of our
significant investment in creating a world-class cancer program and we
are proud to be the first U.S. community hospital to arm our clinical
team with this cutting-edge technology.”
“In communities across the country and around the world, there is
a growing need for tools that help increase efficiency and enable quick
access to important information from the collective body of cancer knowledge
available today,” said Rob Merkel, Vice President of Oncology and
Genomics, IBM Watson Health. “In adopting Watson for Oncology, Jupiter
Medical Center joins world-class facilities that are offering the power
of Watson to their physicians as the need for cognitive computing in cancer
care becomes increasingly clear.”
IBM and MSK have been accelerating Watson for Oncology’s training;
Watson for Oncology is now available to assist clinicians in developing
treatment plans for breast, lung, colorectal, cervical, ovarian and gastric
cancers. IBM and MSK plan to train Watson on at least 9 additional cancer
types this year, covering nearly 80 percent of the worldwide incidence
of cancer.
“We were impressed by Watson’s analytical ability to help provide
relevant treatment options for patients to allow physicians to personalize
patient care in an unparalleled way,” said Abraham Schwarzberg,
MD, Chief of Oncology at Jupiter Medical Center. “Harnessing the
power of Watson will help our oncology multidisciplinary team identify
individual treatments. As one of the first in the country to implement
this incredible tool, Jupiter Medical Center continues to be a regional
leader in integrating technology to provide cutting-edge clinical care.”
“Identifying the right course of treatment for cancer patients has
always been challenging but today’s rapid pace of discovery creates
new dilemmas in oncology clinical decision support,” says Nancy
Fabozzi, Principal Analyst for Digital Health with Frost & Sullivan.
“Keeping up with the pace of change is difficult enough for oncologists
at the most sophisticated medical centers—and can be near impossible
for those practicing in community settings with fewer resources. Watson
for Oncology could reshape how oncologists derive insights that enable
evidence-based decision making for their patients.”
Sources
[1] American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts and Figures, accessed at:
https://www.cancer.org/research/cancer-facts-statistics/all-cancer-facts-figures/cancer-facts-figures-2017.html
[2] PubMed, accessed at pubmed.com
[3] Densen, Peter,
Challenges and Opportunities Facing Medical Education 2011. Transactions in the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
Accessed at
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3116346/
About Jupiter Medical Center
A not-for-profit 327-bed regional medical center consisting of 207 private
acute-care hospital beds and 120 long-term care, sub-acute rehabilitation
and Hospice beds, Jupiter Medical Center is reimagining how to restore
the community’s health and wellness. Award-winning physicians, world-class
partnerships and innovative techniques and technology enable Jupiter Medical
Center to provide a broad range of services with specialty concentrations
in cardiology, oncology, imaging, orthopedics & spine, digestive health,
emergency services, lung & thoracic, women’s health, weight
management and men’s health. Founded in 1979, Jupiter Medical Center
has approximately 1,500 team members, 575 physicians and 640 volunteers.
Jupiter Medical Center continues to perform in the top 10% of hospitals
for patient quality and satisfaction. For more information on Jupiter
Medical Center, please call (561) 263-2234 or visit
Jupitermed.com.
About IBM Watson Health
Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing capability
representing a new era in computing. The system, delivered through the
cloud, analyzes high volumes of data, understands complex questions posed
in natural language, and proposes evidence-based answers. Watson continuously
learns, gaining in value and knowledge over time, from previous interactions.
In April 2015, the company launched IBM Watson Health and the Watson Health
Cloud platform. The new unit will help improve the ability of doctors,
researchers and insurers to innovate by surfacing insights from the massive
amount of personal health data being created and shared daily. The Watson
Health Cloud can mask patient identities and allow for information to
be shared and combined with a dynamic and constantly growing aggregated
view of clinical, research and social health data. For more information
on IBM Watson, visit:
ibm.com/watson. For more information on IBM Watson Health, visit:
ibm.com/watsonhealth.
Media Contacts
Christine Douglass
IBM Media Relations
415-535-4479
cgdouglass@us.ibm.com
Kathleen Ahern
Jupiter Medical Center Media Relations
kathleen.ahern@jupitermed.com
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