“Jho Low, the 33-year-old billionaire who is bankrolling the $50 million MD Anderson project with Watson, is part of an influential new movement in scientific research driven by young philanthropists and tech titans who have faith that the chips, software programs, algorithms and big data that powered the information revolution can also be used to understand, upgrade and heal the human body. But the Watson project and similar initiatives also have raised speculation — and alarm — that companies are seeking to replace the nation’s approximately 900,000 physicians with software that will have access to everyone’s sensitive personal health information.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/06/27/watsons-next-feat-taking-on-cancer/
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