How Big Data Analytics is set to Power Precision Medicine

Visualize a scenario where you are (god forbid) gravely ill, and yet you (miraculously) receive an accurate diagnosis with a recommended treatment plan within 10 minutes of reaching the hospital. This has, in actuality, been happening for a few years now with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The University of Tokyo, in 2016 reported that Watson, IBM's cognitive supercomputer, correctly diagnosed a rare form of leukemia in a 60-year-old woman which doctors originally thought was acute myeloid leukemia. After examining 20 million cancer research papers in 10 minutes, Watson was able to correctly determine the disease and recommend a personalized treatment plan. AI and its related applications are changing healthcare as we know it. The advancements made in AI will revolutionize research and, ultimately, personalized medicine.