Precision Medicine

IBM will integrate its cognitive computing platform Watson for Genomics with biotech company Illumina's tumor sequencing technology. Executives announced what they called a "groundbreaking partnership" Jan. 9 at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.

From health policy to cybersecurity, better interoperability to more usable EHRs – a long list of hopes for the year ahead.

Mayo will deploy the Tempus “operating system to battle cancer,” to apply analytics that can be used for improving patients’ quality of life and survival rates. 

Doctors at the health network used St. Jude Medical’s EnSite Precision system to map structures and electrical current of a heart to treat abnormal heartbeats.

Our rundown of all things precision medicine that attendees can expect to find at this year’s annual conference, including an all-day precision medicine symposium, education sessions and expert speakers.

The new Lymph2Cx test can accurately diagnose non-Hodgkins lymphoma and help determine treatment regimens in ways that Mayo Clinic doctors said have the potential to transform patient care. 

Precision medicine is promising, but integrating genomics with EHRs and workflow poses challenges. The technology for testing is the easy part. Putting the results into a usable format for clinicians can be more problematic, says Inova's John Deeken, MD.   

The all-day pre-conference event will also examine how to identify relevant, practical innovations poised to improve care delivery and the consumer experience. 

The new platform leverages Oracle and Hadoop technologies to enable users to run analytics against large research data sets.

Vice President Biden joined the president in signing the bill, which passed through Congress with overwhelming approval.