IBM’s Watson wows ‘em at Cleveland Clinic Summit

By Joe Jancsurak, Editor
Former Vice President Dick Cheney was there to share his own cardio care experience during a one-on-one with NBC’s Robert Bazell, as was GE CEO and the president’s “jobs czar,” Jeff Immelt, who came to discuss the global economy and the medtech biz in a one-one-one with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. But one of the surprise show-stoppers at the Cleveland Clinic’s Medical Innovation Summit on “State of the Heart Cardiovascular Technologies” held two weeks ago was named Watson, as in IBM’s Watson. You know, the supercomputer named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson that recently beat two Jeopardy champions on national TV.

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