Precision Medicine

Largest individual gift in health system’s history honors life and legacy of donor’s wife.

The bill allocates billions in new funding for Precision Medicine, Cancer moonshot and BRAIN initiatives and includes provisions to bring new medicines to market is also expected to pass the Senate next week. 

The pre-conference daylong event also includes sessions on the science of behavior change and preparing for the next horizon of technology, policy, and care delivery. 

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs signs five-year deal with San Francisco-based Flow Health to apply AI in making care plans personalized.

Healthcare IT News took the pulse of its Best Hospital IT Departments 2016 winners and found that progress on these fronts is fluctuating – from ‘dabbling’ today to leading-edge work toward next-generation care delivery.

The five-year partnership will focus on best practices for genomics analytics and collaborating on tools to better process and integrate data.

As outlined in HHS Office of Inspector General's 2017 work plan, the agency will also review the FDA's plan to address cybersecurity issues of medical devices.

Penn Medicine’s Brian Wells puts out a call to technology companies to incorporate new functionalities that could vastly improve how physicians personalize care and eradicate killer diseases. 

The project will combine an insulin pump, continuous glucose monitoring and personalized medicine technologies, the companies said. 

Mayo Clinic and biotechnology firm Illumina will collaborate on next-generation sequencing technology to further Mayo's genetic and genomic research, the orgnizations announced today.