American multinational company IBM and CVS Pharmacy, America’s second largest pharmacy, have joined hands to better manage patient care. In the partnership, IBM’s Watson computing engine will be used to provide better care management services to further enhance the quality of life for patients.

The partnership, which has been announced this week, aims to provide access to health care practitioners of health information sources like health records. In return, the provided information and fitness device will let know how to take better care of patients.

Both the companies have affirmed that they will focus on patients whose health has been declining. It is expected that the measure will benefit from these efforts. The companies stated that their program will encourage patients to have better and healthier lifestyle.

CVS was of the view that the partnership will give them an opportunity to use advanced technologies that will help health care providers to further improve the life of patients and would also bring a decline in management costs.

The chief medical officer for CVS Health, Troyen A. Brennan, said that he is aiming to create mobile apps that will integrate information from fitness trackers and let Watson to find out when person’s activity level goes down. It would help know that something wrong is happening.

Brennan has also made it clear that for now, there is no deadline on the project. The first stage of the project will be based on the development of algorithms and to test them to improve patient outcomes. He affirmed that the first outcome is expected in one or two years.