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IBM is working on a pocket-sized Watson:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-creating-pocket-sized-watson-040100567.html

In one potential scenario, a patient accesses Watson via a mobile device to explain symptoms in natural language. The person then gets several recommendations for what might be happening, listed in order of the computer's confidence. The patient and a doctor both have access to Watson, which would securely access the patient's medical records, letting it make adjustments to an answer depending on factors like pregnancy or diabetes, Kohn said.

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