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UCB & IBM Collaborate to Personalize Care for Epilepsy Patients

Project Will Use Big Data and Analytics to Address Pressing Public Health Issue

UCB and IBM today announced the completion of the initial phase of a project designed to harness the power of analytics to help healthcare providers deliver more highly personalized care to people living with epilepsy. The milestone marks the critical first step in the path towards eventually harnessing the transformative power of cognitive computing capabilities, such as IBM Watson, for epilepsy care.

The goal of the project is to deliver an interactive system that translates massive amounts of patient data and scientific literature into insights that healthcare providers can consult at the point of care to inform their treatment decisions.

Together, UCB and IBM scientists are working to create the healthcare industry’s most comprehensive corpus of data on epilepsy. Upon completion of this project, healthcare providers would be able to combine their own clinical patient assessment with the system’s predictive analytics to determine the probability that specific approaches to care will be successful.

Dr. Iris Löw-Friedrich, Executive Vice-President Global Projects and Development and Chief Medical Officer, UCB said: “UCB focuses on the creation of innovative networks because we recognize that delivering best-in-class solutions to patients requires collaboration with a diverse group of internal and external experts. We have partnered with IBM to explore this concept of streamlining large amounts of data into actionable approaches to epilepsy care.”

Epilepsy, one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system, afflicts approximately 65 million people worldwide Epilepsy Foundation. About Epilepsy. Accessed 1/7/13.. A recent special issue of The Lancet The, Lancet. “Wanted: a global campaign against epilepsy.” The Lancet no. 380 (9848):1121.
highlighted the significant unmet medical needs in epilepsy and called on public health officials to treat this disease as a global health priority.

UCB and IBM anticipate that deeper insight into the epilepsy patient population could potentially provide millions of patients with more personalized care and ultimately improved outcomes. This approach will help seed the foundation for the potential to leverage cognitive computing, natural language processing, and machine learning capabilities to raise the standard of care in epilepsy.

“Technologies, like analytics and cognitive computing applied to big data, are revolutionizing the way we deliver and receive care,” said Sean Hogan, Vice President, IBM Healthcare. “IBM is dedicating innovation and expertise to help UCB prove the predictive value of this technology that would arm physicians with information that will help them identify the best possible treatment options and improve quality of care for patients suffering from epilepsy.”

As part of its open innovation model, UCB may look to collaborate with additional leaders in the epilepsy and healthcare technology communities to develop and broaden the reach of this project and improve long-term patient outcomes.

Phil Gattone, M.Ed., CEO of the Epilepsy Foundation and participant in the project’s advisory board said, “The Epilepsy Foundation is very excited about the potential of this innovative approach for more personalized treatment management of epilepsy patients. Individuals fighting epilepsy and their care providers deserve the very best information to make informed decisions about their care in a timeframe that matters. This collaboration could benefit patients, their families and the healthcare system in a way that has never been seen before.”

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A Boy And His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie

Scientists are known for loving their work. Biologists tend to their cultures and animals. Physicists polish their exquisite machines like sports car entusiasts treat vintage Ferraris. So do chemists love atoms? Apparently they do. At least enough to write a love story with, and about them.

IBM scientists have created the world’s smallest movie using individual atoms. It’s the story of a boy and his playful atom buddy, drawn in stop motion and with each quantum pixel positioned using a scanning tunneling microscope. Every frame is magnified a stunning 100 million times!

This amazing feat was accomplished by using a charged atomic needle to drag single carbon monoxide molecules (the individual atoms we see are one side of that two-atom molecule) around on a copper substrate. I’ve posted a little bit about these feats of atomic art before, with these “quantum corrals” and “ferrous wheels”.

See those ripples around each atom? They remind me of pebbles being tossed into a still pond. They are actually ripples in the electron field of the copper surface below! It’s a reminder that, contrary to many textbooks, electrons behave more like waves than particles following an orbit. And like any other wave, they can form intricate interference patterns. Check out this previous post for more on that.

The hope is that manipulating atomic structures like this may lead to even greater information storage capacity. Imaging all the world’s books and movies on your mobile phone at once!

Here’s a “making of” movie from IBM, featuring the sound of atoms being moved as well as the encouraging sight of several female team members.

This makes me as happy as atom boy there.

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Boxing Day at our Fencing Club

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“IBM on Brand” by Jon Iwata - Nice short film on the meaning of Brand #IBM #Brand

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Announcing the IBM Customer Experience Lab

Yesterday IBM announced the creation of the IBM Customer Experience Lab, an exclusive Research and GBS capability aimed at the front-office agenda of clients in the world of Big Data. One hundred Research scientists worldwide will work with thousands of GBS business consultants to address the emerging C-Suite Front Office Digitization priorities.

In her remarks at IBM’s annual briefing for financial analysts, Ginni called the front-office transformation of functions like sales, marketing and customer service the most significant wave of business change since the advent of ERP in the 1990s. To lead in this opportunity, we are scaling access to the highest levels of expertise for CEOs, CMOs, CxOs, public officials, and other global business leaders who recognize the urgency to create new models of engagement and move at the speed of individual attitudes and preferences.

Banorte-lxe, one of the leading banks in Latin America, and Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, are among clients already engaged with the Research and consulting experts of the new lab. During its start-up phase, the Lab will focus on six priority industries — Banking, Insurance, Retail, Consumer Products, Telco and Energy & Utilities — and we are going to select and manage the engagements coming into the Lab through GBS Global Industry Leaders and partners.

The Lab will be co-led by Sarah Diamond, general manager, Global Consulting Services, and Mahmoud Naghshineh, vice president, Services Research, with support across all 12 of IBM’s Research labs globally and a team of innovation leaders selected from the GBS Centers of Competence. Jade Nguyen Strattner has been named director of the CXLab, with overall responsibility for its day-to-day operations and the ongoing integration of Research and GBS capabilities.

Please share your perspectives on how we will help our clients convert data into new business value, and lift IBM to another level of market leadership.

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