The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired

Author:   Doug Meil
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 September 2025
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The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: A Personal Memoir of a Healthcare Moonshot that Misfired


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Author:   Doug Meil
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Productivity Press
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781032793603


ISBN 10:   1032793600
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   22 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Creation Of Explorys. Chapter 2 - The Actual Creation Of Explorys. Chapter 3 - Scaling a Startup. Chapter 4 – Moving A Startup. Chapter 5 – Acquisition Due Diligence. Chapter 6 - IBM Watson Health: Formation. Chapter 7 - IBM Watson Health: Stalling. Chapter 8 – IBM Distinguished. Chapter 9 - IBM Watson Health: Decline. Chapter 10 - In Spite Of Everything. Chapter 11 - Meanwhile….. Chapter 12 - The End of Watson Health.

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Doug Meil is a software architect for data and analytic solutions. Doug created the Cleveland Big Data Meetup in 2010 and organized it for 14 years with 81 meetup events and over 4,000 members. Doug was also the founding engineer of Explorys, a healthcare informatics startup that was acquired by IBM to be a foundational part of the newly created Watson Health division. Doug has also written over 30 posts for the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on software development and other technical topics and has also written for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Doug was an Apache HBase committer during the early days of Hadoop and is an ACM Senior Member.

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