Here are five thoughts:
1. Incheon, South Korea-based Gachon University Gil Medical Centre became the first Korean medical center to implement the artificial intelligence technology in October 2016.
2. Physicians utilized Watson to diagnose 85 cancer patients in the last 12 days at the institution.
3. The technology helps the providers dig through massive amounts of data, quickly.
4. Although many healthcare providers are lauding the technology, some are dubious, as they feel Watson is taking the place of human diagnostics.
5. Gil Medical Centre executives reported the technology is not a replacement for human physicians, but rather a complement to human diagnostics.
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