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Cognitive computing in healthcare mends doctor-patient gaps

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I like to keep up with how cognitive computing is doing in the marketplace and came across a TedMedLive Talk by Basit Chaudhry, an MD specializing in the design of clinical service delivery systems for chronic disease care. His talk is a little dated, 2013, but what he had to say then applies very much to the state of today's healthcare industry. "It's not possible [anymore] to try to keep up with everything that's going on, ... for one person to fit everything known in medicine inside of their head, regardless of how talented they are," Chaudhry said. The "breathtaking growth of medical knowledge," he said, has forced clinicians to specialize so they can cope with their own cognitive limits and focus on a subset of all things medical. As a result, the quality of clinical care has suffered, according to Chaudhry, who is the founder of Tuple Health and a former IBM medical scientist.