IBM Watson-powered app aims to make hospital visits less daunting for young patients

IBM will analyse data from everything to surgical procedures to favourite films will be analysed to make children's hospital visits as stress-free as possible. IBM Watson's cognitive computing power is set to be deployed in a UK NHS hospital for the first time in an effort to use artificial intelligence and big data to improve patient experience -- by using a mobile app. It isn't the first time IBM Watson has been applied to healthcare, but it's the first time the technology is set to be used in the UK. Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool will collaborate with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre -- an institution which aims to accelerate the application of high performance computing and data science -- and IBM Watson in an effort to develop the UK's first'cognitive' hospital. The multi-year project will see Alder Hey apply IBM Watson's cognitive computing capabilities to analyse data gathered on patient feedback about their hospital experience.