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Precision Medicine

By Jessica Davis | 01:00 pm | January 10, 2017
Liquid biopsies, opioid addiction biosensors and AI top ECRI's annual list of technologies that will transform the healthcare industry in the year ahead.
By John Andrews | 08:02 am | January 10, 2017
Kristina Sheridan is among the growing legion of caregivers who have come to believe that involving input from patients and their families can be a game-changer when it comes to diagnosis and treatment. 
By Tom Sullivan | 02:53 pm | January 09, 2017
The outgoing national coordinator discusses interoperability, the promise of innovation and how he used a Palm Pilot to be a better clinician at the point of care. 
By Bernie Monegain | 11:06 am | January 09, 2017
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.
By Mike Miliard | 12:56 pm | January 05, 2017
From health policy to cybersecurity, better interoperability to more usable EHRs – a long list of hopes for the year ahead.
By Jack McCarthy | 08:01 am | January 05, 2017
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. 
By Bernie Monegain | 11:30 am | January 03, 2017
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.
By Jessica Davis | 10:23 am | December 28, 2016
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.
By Jack McCarthy | 11:12 am | December 22, 2016
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. 
By Mike Miliard | 02:57 pm | December 20, 2016
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.