SHARE
Facebook X Pinterest WhatsApp

IBM, Nuance to Tune Watson for Health Care

IBM will incorporate Nuance CLU speech-recognition applications into the Watson supercomputer to provide information that assists doctors as they make diagnoses. IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will […]

Feb 18, 2011
Channel Insider content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More

IBM will incorporate Nuance CLU speech-recognition applications into the Watson supercomputer to provide information that assists doctors as they make diagnoses.
IBM will continue its longtime collaboration with speech-recognition software developer Nuance Communications to bring the analytics capabilities of supercomputer Watson into the health care field. Under a research agreement announced Feb. 17, Nuance will feed its CLU (Clinical Language Understanding) applications into IBM’s Watson hardware.

Nuance makes the Dragon speech-recognition software.

Meanwhile, IBM will incorporate its own Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning capabilities into the supercomputer.

Combining the CLU language capabilities of Nuance in a supercomputer such as Watson could lead to the next generation of EHRs and decision-support applications, according to Dr. Eliot Siegel, director of the Maryland Imaging Research Technologies Laboratory (MIRTL) at the UMD School of Medicine. "We believe that this has the potential to usher in a new era of computer-assisted personalized medicine into health care to improve diagnostic accuracy, efficiency and patient safety," Siegel said in a statement.

A commercial product will be available in 18 to 24 months, IBM and Nuance report.

Click here to read the rest of the story.

Recommended for you...

SolarWinds Launches AI Agent and Expands AI Features
Jordan Smith
Oct 15, 2025
AI Wave, Economy Fuel Major Tech Layoffs Worldwide in 2025
Luis Millares
Oct 15, 2025
Check Point & Wiz Partner on Integrated Security Solutions
Jordan Smith
Oct 15, 2025
NetApp Announces Solutions for AI, Cloud, and Cyber Resilience
Jordan Smith
Oct 14, 2025
Channel Insider Logo

Channel Insider combines news and technology recommendations to keep channel partners, value-added resellers, IT solution providers, MSPs, and SaaS providers informed on the changing IT landscape. These resources provide product comparisons, in-depth analysis of vendors, and interviews with subject matter experts to provide vendors with critical information for their operations.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.