'Discovery Accelerator,' a new Cleveland Clinic-IBM partnership, will use quantum computer, artificial intelligence to speed up medical innovations

The Cleveland Clinic and IBM have entered a 10-year partnership that includes the first quantum computer in the United States to be used for healthcare research, it was announced today. The partnership will establish the Discovery Accelerator, a joint Cleveland Clinic - IBM center created to advance discoveries in health care through the use of hybrid cloud with high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing technologies.