Precision Medicine

Translational Research Institute for Space Health Chief Innovation Officer James Hury discusses collaboration and partnership opportunities, and highlights the group's programs that are most relevant to HIMSS members.

Health and technology innovators are studying astronauts' health to advance terrestrial healthcare. James Hury, deputy director and chief innovation officer at the Translational Research Institute for Space Health, explains how.

LA Children's received the funding to predict how critically ill children handle medication by applying machine learning to identify clinically significant patterns from the ICU data of 20,000 patients. 

The federal precision medicine initiative aiming to study the DNA of 1 million volunteers has announced that it has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants.

Personalized medicine is constantly evolving, and the technologies it relies on are advancing rapidly. In this environment, the associated challenges are numerous and complex. Overcoming them often requires fresh eyes and multiple perspectives.

The researchers will explore the structure-function relationships that may be overlooked in cardiovascular physiology through the joint research effort.

A series of themes and proposals to help advance the digital transformation of healthcare in the Middle East and North Africa were made during the final session of the 2022 HIMSS Middle East Health Conference & Exhibition.

The cloud-based platform provides security, scale and the processing power needed for genomic data storage and analyses, eliminating the need for specialized infrastructure and workflows.  

They will also seek to develop joint proposals to expand Indonesia's telehealth and electronic health passport.

The new institute will focus on AI and machine learning, virtual and augmented reality, 5G technologies, precision medicine, telehealth and more.