The Rise and Fall of Explorys and IBM Watson Health: Healthcare Innovation and the Moonshot That Misfired

This book chronicles the story of Explorys and IBM Watson Health and what led to its downfall in just 3 short years. Written by one of Explorys’ founding engineers, the book relates the rise and fall of both Explorys and IBM Watson and provides a message for future tech entrepreneurs and IT managers alike.

Doug Meil is a software architect. Doug created the Cleveland Big Data Meetup in 2010 and still co-organizes the group. Doug was an Apache HBase committer during the early days of Hadoop. 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 22 posts for the Association for Computing Machinery (BLOG@CACM) on software development and other technical topics and has also written for the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).