The First Commercial Application of the IBM Watson Question Answering System: Medical Diagnostics (September 12, 2011)

Health Care insurance provider WellPoint, Inc. and IBM announced an agreement to create the first commercial applications of the IBM Watson question answering system. Under the agreement, WellPoint would develop and launch Watson-based solutions to help improve patient care through the delivery of up-to-date, evidence-based health care for millions of Americans, while IBM would develop the Watson healthcare technology on which WellPoint's solution will run.