This is like using a sledgehammer to put up pictures. You simply do not need the kind of parallel compute grunt something like watson can provide to do correlation analysis as they describe. You could cobble this together in {dirty secret scripting language of choice} and run it on your laptop.
This is a PR piece - not the article, the activity - to bring forth the idea of computers making decisions about healthcare, based on metrics - not humans, based on metrics and compassion.
The cynic in me sees this as setting a disquieting precedent in the direction of healthcare being distributed according not only to patients prospects and treatment needs, but other factors which a financially liable party, say an insurer, would be interested in - such as the earning potential of the patient.
I'm pretty sure there was a Star Trek episode about this.
This is a PR piece - not the article, the activity - to bring forth the idea of computers making decisions about healthcare, based on metrics - not humans, based on metrics and compassion.
The cynic in me sees this as setting a disquieting precedent in the direction of healthcare being distributed according not only to patients prospects and treatment needs, but other factors which a financially liable party, say an insurer, would be interested in - such as the earning potential of the patient.
I'm pretty sure there was a Star Trek episode about this.