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Dr. Watson? Balancing Automation and Human Expertise in Healthcare Delivery

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Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Specialized Techniques and Applications (ISoLA 2014)

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IBM’s Watson, the supercomputer that beat two Jeopardy champions in a televised competition, has inevitably engendered speculation about what this surprising performance bodes for the role of computers in the workplace. How can Dr. Watson be best utilized in medicine and clinical support systems? This paper defines Computer Enhanced Medicine technology for healthcare as any medical application where the required tasks are split between a human being and a computer-controlled device.

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  1. School for Public Health and Social Justice, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Mark Gaynor

  2. Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA

    George Wyner

  3. Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Pace University, New York City, NY, USA

    Amar Gupta

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  1. University of Limerick, Ireland

    Tiziana Margaria

  2. TU Dortmund, Germany

    Bernhard Steffen

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Gaynor, M., Wyner, G., Gupta, A. (2014). Dr. Watson? Balancing Automation and Human Expertise in Healthcare Delivery. In: Margaria, T., Steffen, B. (eds) Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. Specialized Techniques and Applications. ISoLA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8803. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45231-8_46

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