"healthcare systems are strapped for cash"

I don't know about that. Most of the new construction in Connecticut seems to be building medical offices for Hartford Healthcare or other medical groups.

>A very expensive tool when healthcare systems are strapped for cash. Super unethical of IBM to try and extract profits here.

Do you realize they would have never developed Watson if there weren't profits involved?

I have no objection to them selling a working technology but they knew Watson was pure snake oil and did it anyway. Same as Theranos.

If people require 100% accuracy out of the gate from any software then we might as well give up now. It's not as if doctors get it right all the time, if you know anyone with medical issues they've likely heard different opinions from different doctors themselves. Anything more complicated then a broken bone seems to get mixed responses about what should be done, or even what the cause of the complication is in the first place.

A technology in this stage of immaturity is fine to trial but IBM should be paying the hospitals not the other way round. They are doing experiments with peoples lives - again just like Theranos.