Cancer care provider Icon Group has signed on with IBM Watson Health for its Watson for Oncology cognitive computing platform, which will allow oncologists to access evidence-based, personalised treatment options for seven types of cancer.

Icon Group, which includes six Icon Cancer Care day hospitals in Australia and a private cancer care facility at Wakefield Hospital in Wellington, along with 11 radiation oncology centres, three integrated cancer centres, medication management provider Epic Pharmacy and chemotherapy compounder Slade Health, will be made available to oncologists within Icon Group’s Australian network, enabling them to access the massive volumes of cancer research and literature currently available.