Precision Medicine

The HIE contains 98 percent of all Maine residents' clinical information.

The health IT vendor also has its sights set on precision medicine.

The event is scheduled for June 12-13, 2017 in Boston and we are looking for proposals focusing on healthcare organizations using precision medicine to deliver targeted, personalized care. 

The EHR vendor’s chief executive weighs in on the industry's most exciting opportunities to improve care ahead of HIMSS17 and into the future.

Researchers say the medical revolution will be akin to low-cost genome sequencing.

Informaticist Nephi Walton says that the cloud can be used to aggregate and harmonize data and argues that in certain ways it is more secure than what hospitals can handle on their own.

Four Cleveland-based medical researchers - two with the Cleveland Clinic, one with University Hospitals and another from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine - each received seven-year, multi-million dollar awards from the National Institutes of Health.

Jupiter is first community hospital in U.S. to adopt IBM Watson for Oncology.

Among many other demonstrations and announcements this year at HIMSS17, IBM Watson Health will be "celebrating and highlighting what we've accomplished" since the AI was launched six years ago, said Kyu Rhee, MD, chief health officer at IBM. "And that's quite a bit."

HIMSS Analytics' most recent Essentials Brief offers a look back at health IT market trends in 2016 – and ahead to the rest of this year and beyond, projecting purchasing demand for 81 different applications in 2017 and 2018.