Precision Medicine

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The health system will collect unprocessed data from AncestryDNA, MyHeritage and 23andMe to validate new findings and discover new mutations, the organization said. 

The MyHealthEData Initiative, announced by CMS' Seema Verma at HIMSS18, is too light on detail to make much of a difference, said the former VP – who offered his own way forward.

Research team finds patterns of symptoms that might be caused by an underlying genetic variant.

The C should stand for connected, not comprehensive, say tech, policy and clinical experts at the school's Center for Digital Health Innovation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of scandal-ridden startup Theranos, with “massive fraud.

Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health have announced the results of a cutting-edge project putting the supercomputer to work for patient matching: Watson brought in more patients than before to participate in recent breast cancer clinical trials.

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval will invite an additional 40,000 Nevadans on March 15 to enroll in the study and have their DNA sequenced for in-depth research.

GenomeWeb and Oracle Health Sciences reveal key survey results; WuXi NextCODE and Google Cloud partner; and 2bPrecise and The Innovation Institute collaborate on pharmacogenomics.

But experts from IEEE, UC San Diego and Health Linkages say the key is to make sure it's the "right solution for the right problem."