When IBMWatson first came out I thought it was great and still do for cancer research and other areas requiring deep data mining to find cures, but this, with “excess scoring” and selling of data mining has reached the limit. If you read the article they don’t even know what
they might find or what they are doing. Why spend all this money? CVS is making money hand over fist and the Affordable Care Act Czar Nancy DeParle sits on their board raking in the money for goodness sakes.
So if you don’t have any idea of what you are doing with this deep mining and cognitive technology, why do it? Once this starts up, you’ll never find me in a CVS Minute Clinic, which I once thought were pretty cool, but adding on these big data lakes with clinicians who barely have enough time as it is, is not the answer. I don’t like the fact that CVS is putting independent pharmacies out of business at all. You can read more about those tactics here. You know what, these independent pharmacies never sold tobacco either, so knock off the marketing on that end of things as I never went in a CVS store to buy those products anyway, I want a prescription filled professionally and everything else in the store is just the side business.
CVS Buys Independent Pharmacy, Picks Up A Slew of 7000 Ready Made Prescription Customers With Data To Mine and Sell…
When we can, we all avoid the “rewards” program as we know that adds profits to the approximate $2 billion that CVS makes 
selling our data every year.
CVS to Share More Medication Adherence Love With New Contracts–Will Have More Data to Sell…
So now that IBM is losing sales, we have this now to mine and sell our data as well. Why in the heck doesn’t IBMWatson go to Congress and get our lawmakers to use their technology as that’s a huge need instead of needling US consumers and scoring up backwards and forwards with all types of data. This is over the top and its exactly why the opportunities in the US are not there anymore, you’re scored out of any opportunities with data miners and sellers that just want to make money. Now read this next link and CVS uses this software too, you are an OUTLIER now if you pay cash. The software even tells the pharmacists, go after those OUTLIERS and bring your scores up. This is not hear say either, this post was from a conversation with a real pharmacist with all the flawed data floating into their system with using “predictive scoring” that’s loaded with tons of error bars and defaults you to “non compliance”. This is no way to get better care!
Patients Who Pay “Cash” When Filling Prescriptions Are Now Called “Outliers, Pharmacists Required to Fix Outliers as They Show Up As Non Medication Adherence Compliant With 5 Star Systems Full of Flawed Data…
Take IBMWatson into the science area and keep using it to find cures for cancer and not this “scoring and monitoring” Operation “Perception-Deception” Into Full Swing in the US, With Killer Algorithms, Algo Fairies, Algo Duping, The Grays, and Of Course, Flags As Consumers Confuse Virtual World Values With the Real World…
IBM is teaming up with CVS Health to harness the power of the Watson supercomputing brain to transform how the care of patients with chronic conditions is managed.
Under a deal expected to be announced Thursday, the companies will work together to develop a system that would be able to provide better personalization of care, prevent the use of unneeded and costly interventions -- even predict health declines for a wide range of conditions including heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
Troyen A. Brennan, chief medical officer for CVS Health in an interview that no specific product or timeline has been worked out, but that the first stage would be to jointly develop intelligent algorithms and test them to see if they helped improve patient outcomes. He said he was hopeful some "realistic interventions" could be identified in one to two years.
Shahram Ebadollahi, chief science officer and vice president of innovation at Watson Health for IBM, said he hopes the technology developed through the partnership will help create an integrated, seamless system where every health care professional a patient encounters would have access to the most up-to-date information about a patient and the tools to be able to make sense of the information.
