Seton Healthcare Family is the first client to adopt and use the technology, called IBM Content and Predictive Analytics for Healthcare. The solution will allow healthcare organizations to extract relevant clinical information from vast amounts of patient data to better analyze the past, understand the present, and predict future outcomes.

By combining IBM's Watson technology with industry solutions offerings, Seton intends to focus the new content and predictive analytics solution on the root causes of hospital readmissions, and ways it can decrease preventable multiple hospital visits.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, one in five patients suffer from preventable readmissions, which represents $17.4 billion of the current $102.6 billion Medicare budget.* Beginning in 2012, hospitals will be penalized for high readmission rates with reductions in Medicare discharge payments.

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Trident Marketing Increases Revenue 1,000% with Predictive Analytics Thu, May 9th 2013 7:17a Adam Gartenberg A few weeks back I attended the IBM Big Data, Integration and Governance Forum in Charlotte, NC. (If you haven't made it to one yet yourself, we've got more of these events coming up in a number of cities in the US and around the world.) It's always good to hear our executives speak about how IBM is approaching the area of Big Data, the type of use cases that we're seeing businesses focus on, and learn more about the latest innovations in the fields of Information Integration and DB2 wit [read] Keywords: ibm db2 google integration linux

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IBM X-Force Trends: Data Breach Issues and Solutions (Upcoming Webcast) Wed, May 1st 2013 4:17p Adam Gartenberg If you are an IT security, compliance and data management professional, you're likely working harder than ever to secure your enterprise against both internal and external threats. If you'd like to get a better look into recent public vulnerability disclosures and understand the lessons that can be learned from those situations, you'll want to check out the upcoming Dark Reading "IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend Report: Data Breach Issues and Solutions" webcast. (May 9, 2pm ET) Join Ro [read] Keywords: ibm enterprise security

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Reminder: Big Data at the Speed of Business Broadcast (4/30) Wed, Apr 24th 2013 1:16p Adam Gartenberg As a reminder, we'll be holding a broadcast next Tuesday, April 30th, where we'll be discussing details on the recent DB2 with BLU Acceleration and Big Data Platform announcements. The event will feature General Manager Bob Picciano, VP of Development Martin Wildberger, VP of Product Strategy Inhi Suh, as well as first-hand experiences shared by a client panel and a Q&A session. The broadcast will be held at two times, 11am-12pm EDT and 9pm - 10pm EDT, and you can register here. [read] Keywords: ibm db2 development

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Announcement Review: IBM’s New Moves in Big Data Thu, Apr 11th 2013 9:18a Adam Gartenberg Joe Clabby of Clabby Analytics has posted his first take on the DB2 and Big Data announcements we made last week. You can read his full write-up here: IBM’s New Moves in Big Data: Acceleration, Optimization, and an Open Source Alternative (pdf) IBM’s New Moves in Big Data: Acceleration, Optimization, and an Open Source Alternative IBM Almaden Labs, San Jose, CA, April 2, 2013 In a major, multi-faceted announcement, IBM announced yesterday that it will soon deliver “speed-o [read] Keywords: ibm database db2 enterprise oracle

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New Ad: Big Data and Analytics Mon, Apr 8th 2013 9:15a Adam Gartenberg Here's a new ad on Big Data and Analytics that will be debuting on TV at the Masters golf tournament this week: More: Big data and analytics can help predict trends down to the customer. Sales down to the shelf. What can big data and analytics do for you? Learn more at http://ibm.co/10x97Xc [read] Keywords: ibm

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Two opportunities to learn more about the Data Mgmt and Big Data announcements Thu, Apr 4th 2013 6:18a Adam Gartenberg If you'd like to learn more about all of the Data Management and Big Data announcements made yesterday, we've got two great opportunities coming up. First up is a Google Hangout Video Chat this Friday, April 5, starting at 2pm US-EDT. During the chat you'll hear from panelists Jeff Kelly (Wikibon), James Kobielus (IBM), Mike Martin (BTRG) and others. Head on over here to learn more and RSVP. The second opportunity will be to join us on April 30th for a broadcast event featuring Genera [read] Keywords: ibm db2 development google twitter

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IBM Announces New Innovations to Help Organizations Benefit From Big Data Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 2:18p Adam Gartenberg As I posted earlier in the day, IBM is making a number of announcements today, including new releases of DB2; PureData Systems; InfoSphere BigInsights, Streams and Entity Analytics; and Informix TimeSeries. What they have in common is that they are all centered around helping organizations benefit from Big Data. Today's announcements include: BLU Acceleration, a breakthrough set of technologies, including Dynamic In-Memory technology, that deliver speed of thought analytics over terabytes [read] Keywords: ibm application applications archive database db2 development email enterprise google integration security sql twitter wiki

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Information On Demand 2013: Call for Speakers Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 9:16a Adam Gartenberg Session proposals for this year's Information On Demand conference will be accepted from April 4th - 30th, so if you have an interesting story to share about products, solutions, or implementations, please head on over and submit a proposal. IT professionals, including managers, architects, and developers should submit proposals for technical sessions across Information Management, Business Analytics and Enterprise Content Management. C-suite executives and senior decision makers in Line [read] Keywords: ibm enterprise

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NY Times: Why Big Data Is I.B.M.’s Friend Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 9:16a Adam Gartenberg The Bits blog in today's NY Times highlights some important news on Big Data that IBM is sharing today while also describing why Big Data is so important to the businesses that IBM works with (and why IBM in turn is putting so much investment into related technology.) Case in point: I.B.M. just announced a series of technologies intended to make data analysis faster and more powerful. That is probably good news to Big Blue’s core customer base of large corporations, which are increasin [read] Keywords: ibm

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From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM Collaborate to Explore Origins of the Universe Thu, Mar 14th 2013 11:09a Adam Gartenberg "The SKA’s [Square Kilometer Array's] more than 500,000 antennas scattered across southern Africa and Australia will produce a torrent of data that’s equivalent to 10 times the daily global Internet traffic." IBM continued to push the push forward the cause of Big Data this week with an ambitious initiative: better understanding the origins of the universe. It's one that will require the latest approaches to extracting value from big data. The quote above comes from [read] Keywords: ibm