Precision Medicine

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.  

Contenders set their sights on strokes, maternal care and mental health.

The network adds 62 genes to its ongoing efforts for late stage cancer patients.

The deal is expected to provide customers with new opportunities to develop novel diagnostics and also to manage long-term genomic data storage.

The HHS nominee decries a law that has turned physicians "into data entry clerks." Meanwhile, genomics represents a "brave new world," he said – but "the challenges of how we afford to be able to make that available to our society are real."

Proposals should actionable and solutions-based with a focus on the role analytics play in standardizing clinical care, reducing costs, achieving population health objectives and making better strategic decisions. 

Spectrometry, developed in the 1940s, has been re-engineered and is back in the spotlight with new uses.

President-elect Donald Trump appointed former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani as an informal cybersecurity advisor, the presidential transition office announced Jan. 12. He also recently met with two contenders to head the National Institutes of Health.