IBM's ultra-smart cognitive computing system, Watson, seems to be everywhere these days. From helping robots understand Chinese to offering cooking advice and protecting the world from offensive and ineffectual emails. Now Watson is coming to your neighborhood drugstore.

No, you will not see a giant blue computer behind the counter at your local CVS, but you may feel its influence. On Thursday, IBM and CVS Health announced a major partnership to bring Watson's cognitive-computing capabilities to the retail drugstore giant's 7,600 stores and 1,000 walk-in clinics. CVS estimates that its services touch some 70 million consumers. Scheduled for an early 2016 rollout, this new system will target chronic medical conditions like heart disease, diabetes and obesity.

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Watson's core strength is its ability to ingest vast amounts of data and understand it all and identify key trends and insights. IBM and CVS Health believe Watson's cognitive intelligence can help the healthcare workers offer better care those conditions, which, according to the CDC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services account for roughly 86% of the U.S.'s annual $2.9 trillion healthcare costs.

This is far from IBM Watson's first foray into healthcare. IBM targeted the industry even before its supercomputer famously won Jeopardy back in 2011. Earlier this year, IBM unveiled the Watson Health Cloud, which uses anonymized data from healthcare companies likes Phytel and Explorys (both of which IBM acquired) to identify trends and answer natural-language healthcare queries. IBM is also working with Johnson and Johnson and partnered with Apple to use insights gained from the tech company’s recently launched ResearchKit and HealthKit.

IBM's latest partnership with CVS Health seeks to identify ill individuals who would benefit from proactive healthcare. Watson would then suggest cost-effective primary and out-patient care options.

The increased focus on customer wellness comes less than a year after CVS stopped selling cigarettes in their retails stores, rebranded as CVS Health and launched an aggressive campaign to help customers stop smoking.

In a release on the partnership, Troyen A. Brennan, MD, EVP and Chief Medical Officer for CVS Health said, “[It] will enable us to leverage advanced technologies and key health information to develop a tool that can be applied by a variety of health care providers such as pharmacists, nurse practitioners at MinuteClinics or connected health care providers, and that can help our pharmacy benefit management clients improve member health and manage cost.” As for how it will impact customers, an IBM spokesperson told Mashable, "Rather than delivering an episode of care to patients, Watson will give CVS Health practitioners a more holistic view of each patient, with the ability to coordinate across different provider organizations and detect new signals of potential clinical decline. CVS pharmacists, nurse practitioners and other health providers will be able to proactively treat the whole patient, when and where they need."