According to media news, October 11th IBM and SIEMENS medical (Siemens Healthineers) PHM solution (health management patients) signed a "five years of global strategic cooperation plan, the plan aims to use the IBM Watson to help hospitals, chronic diseases and cancer patients and health systems provide valuable medical services, disease diagnosis and more effective the. This also means that the Watson IBM from the special intelligent auxiliary functions, began to expand the field of population health in depth application development.

The official said: "the application of PHM solution is expected to accelerate rapidly, patient care is entering a new environment, the previous manual service through the PHM solution to intelligent automation began to change, at the same time, the integration of the original information islands, deeper analysis of patients with multiple complications, and patients involved, popularization and application all these will promote the medical and health system to speed up the PHM technology and service solutions that help healthcare providers to efficiently manage chronic disease and other diseases such as medium.

According to the "global strategic development plan for five years, SIEMENS will use its own global medical equipment sales network and channels, introduction of technology driven innovation and provide consulting services to suppliers, to support them to do the value of medical service transition. For example, SIEMENS healthcare providers can access the IBM Watson Care Manager from IBM, a new solution, the program integrates the different types of clinical data, and the application of cognitive analysis to provide solutions for nurses and nursing managers, so that they can closely monitor patients with chronic disease.SIEMENS medical company director Matthias Platsch said: "we will combine the professional advantages of their own and the global sales network and channels, to effectively help the supplier IBM transformation to provide valuable medical service for patients, the market application foray into global medical and health fields, and play an important role in the value of the future of medical care in."In another development, next, IBM and SIEMENS medical will also jointly develop and deploy new PHM products, including the integration of resources, such as the IBM in 2015 acquired two startups Phytel and Explory integrated into the development plan. Explorys is a company that provides cloud services, can combine several types of data, conduct business decisions and forecast analysis, to help medical personnel to master patient information.