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IBM has teamed up with CVS Health, the operator of thousands of drugstores across the US, in a bid to more accurately predict a person's health troubles and provide advice.

The two companies have formed a partnership that will feed IBM's Watson "cognitive computing" computer, a machine that's capable of understanding natural language and learning as it collects more data, with a wide range of healthcare information, including medical health records, medical claims, and pharmacy purchases, to predict a person's risk for several deadly or debilitating diseases. Those diseases include hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. The companies have hit on a major segment of the healthcare market: People suffering from those diseases make up 86 percent of the $2.9 trillion spent each year in the US on healthcare costs.

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