Presented in Upgraded Life Festival 31.5.2016 by Matej Adam, IBM Watson Health. http://www.upgradedlifefestival.com/

1. Big Data and Population
Health for Better Care
Outcomes
Upgraded Life Festival
Helsinki 2016
Matej Adam
IBM Watson Health

2. an IBM Company
200M
Health Records
350,000+
Physicians
Health Data
315B
Health Longitudinal Data Points
80
Programs served
in 18 CountriesGrowth
3000+
Talent
250+
16 Cancer
Institutes
Clients
120+
Partners + Ecosystem
32
Watson APIs
170 Countries
Global Presence
7300+ 2015
23 Years Patent Leadership
$6B
Research Spend
Leadership &
Technology
42
Global Data Centers
50
Watson Technologies

3. 75%
Social Context, Behaviors
Impact on population health status
20%
Medical Care
5%
Genetic
SOURCE: Barbara J. Sowada, A Call to Be Whole:
The Fundamentals of Health Care Reform, July 30, 2003, Praeger.
6 Terabytes
EMR, EHR, claim systems
Consumer-contributed data from non-medical
sources: wearables, social media activity,
public records
1100 Terabytes
Generated per lifetime
0.4 Terabytes
Genetic research, personalized
medicine, clinical trials
IBM Watson // ©2016 IBM Corporation
Accessing a vast amount of untapped data could have a great
impact on our health - yet it exists outside medical systems.

4. Population
Health
Management
Identify care
gaps and deliver
timely,
coordinated care
Social
Programs
Address
individuals' social
context for better
outcomes
Real World
Evidence
Uncover health
interventions to
inform care
approaches
Condition
Specific Care
Apply best care
protocols to
manage chronic
conditions
Health
and Wellness
Empower
individuals to live
healthier, more
productive lives
Discovery
Solutions
Accelerate
research and
improve
treatments
Watson Health: Addressing the health value chain
Life Sciences, Care Providers, Payers, Employers, Wellness, and Health And
Human Services

5. New cognitive systems can help with handling data complexity and
scale
5
Natural Language Processing
Oncology
Genomics
Drug Discovery
Real World Evidence
Medical Image Analytics
Private HIPAA, GXP Cloud
Exogenous
data
Med device
Lab &
diag.
Clinical Genomic
Payments &
Claims
Terminology
& taxonomy
Published
texts
Scientific
journals
Medical
guidelines

6. 6
• Analyseand
identify actionable care
facts trapped in
unstructured content
• Optimizecare
across all determinants of
health: social, clinical,
and psychological factors
• Engage patient and
all his caregivers to
collaborate via a
comprehensive plan
based on the needs of the
individual
Care Orchestration:
Personalised Medicine in Population Health Context

7. Unleashing the Power of the Watson Health Ecosystem