Great news for virtual health consumers!
The National Library of Medicine has announced that it is partnering with Askthedoctor.com, an interactive online source of free medical advice for anyone anywhere in the world, to develop intelligent computerized medical assistants for doctors. Not only are the using thousands of real-language medical questions supplied by the National Institutes of Health–they are also discussing the possibility of working with IBM’s Super Computer ‘Watson’ (of Jeopardy fame).