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The university aims to make genetic testing a regular part of healthcare using Google's Cloud Platform and informatics.

OpenNotes Executive Director Catherine DesRoches said the growing number of patients able to access their medical records online is advancing the shift toward transparency between doctors and patients.  

The supercomputer identified a different type of cancer than the one doctors were currently treating for a patient in Japan.

Many physicians and nurses are traveling across desolate EHR wastelands replete with digital detritus, pixel dust and other non-value-add items.

The software currently enables people living with epilepsy to track their seizures and researchers want to develop the program into a seizure detector as well.

Health officials said Zika must have been contracted out-of-state, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called the virus unprecedented. 

As providers, payers and patients align in what Schoenberg calls a national play for delivering real-time care anywhere patients and providers can connect, telemedicine stands ready to revolutionize healthcare the way Amazon has rewritten retail.

The company also said its scientists are working with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to test the technology on prostate cancer.

Tying Real-Time Location Systems with clinical information tools enables customers to streamline patient and staff flow, eliminate dual data entry and reduce human error, the companies said.

The small percentage of hospitals already tapping into the CMS PROs are tracking chronic care management, surgical interventions, mental health and cancer treatments, the company found. And there is evidence more healthcare entities will get in the game in the future.