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To: Jim Koch who wrote (8105)	9/11/2011 11:12:15 PM
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By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS Watson, the "Jeopardy!"-playing computer system, is getting a job. WellPoint Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are set to announce a deal on Monday for the health insurer to use the Watson technology, the first time the high-profile project will result in a commercial application. WellPoint said it plans to use Watson's data-crunching to help suggest treatment options and diagnoses to doctors. It is part of a far broader push in the health industry to incorporate computerized guidance into care, as doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records and other digital tools that can record, track and check their work. For IBM, the agreement with WellPoint could provide some real-world ballast for Watson, which IBM boasts can process about 200 million pages of content in less than three seconds. Watson is part of the company's broader effort to build a large business in the competitive field of business analytics, which uses software to mine huge volumes of data to aid decision-making. wsj.com