Precision Medicine

Erin Trimble of 23andMe discusses the value of polygenic risk scores, making genetic information actionable for better health and equipping primary care providers to talk with their patients about genetics.

DayTwo's metagenomics and gut microbiome database helps connect diabetics and others with evidence-based "food-as-medicine" treatment regimens, says President Josh Stevens.

By enabling board members to review clinical trial treatment options virtually, assessment time can be reduced from 14 days to four, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

At the HIMSS Connected Health Conference, Bob Coughlin, president and CEO of Mass Biotech Council, offers his expert view of how these two areas of healthcare will impact each other in the future.

The school is tasked with training the next generation of biomedical engineers and will offer multidisciplinary partnerships across the university's network.

Providers nationwide need to make an organizational commitment to addressing social needs and health disparities, says the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – and policymakers need to sort out IT infrastructure and reimbursement.

Mark Jackson of precision medicine company NantHealth was at Health 2.0 looking for new opportunities to bring valuable cloud-based data to physicians at the point of care.

Google Cloud will securely store the health system's data, while working with Mayo clinicians to apply AI and machine learning to an array of complex use case 

Four precision medicine experts – a groundbreaking provider organization and three precision medicine technology vendors – offer healthcare CIOs and other leaders their expertise for getting started with the nascent area of medicine.

Movember's True North technology will be integrated with Genie software, enabling men living with prostate cancer to track and follow up on changes to physical and mental health.