IBM, Jamie Oliver Target Same Mission, Childhood Obesity

IBM's Project Splash, positions the technology giant to take its computational capabilities to help government agencies, health care providers and businesses develop comprehensive strategies to deal with a host of public health challenges, starting with childhood obesity.

IBM is turning its massive computational and data analysis capabilities to the health care field. IBM officials on May 6 announced a project at their Almaden Research facilities to take public health data that's already been collected to help government agencies, businesses and health care providers develop strategies to better take on a host of medical issues, starting with childhood obesity.

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