IBM project with Hamilton Health Sciences will have Watson-like capabilities.

Medical information is now doubling every two to five years, and the average person is expected to generate more than one million gigabytes of health-related data in their lifetime. This is driving the dawn of a new era of computing, where cognitive computing systems like Watson mine these data streams, understand complex questions posed in natural language and respond with evidence-based answers, predict outcomes and learn more with each interaction. Cognitive computing is enabling the dismantling of barriers between data, people and communities of care, and encouraging increased collaboration among researchers, health-care providers and technology experts. This paradigm is what's behind our vision for the recently announced collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS). Together we're creating a new centre in downtown Hamilton focused on health-care innovation.