Precision Medicine

Two recent studies have highlighted issues related to the reliability of genetic testing, and a lack of genomic data from minority populations.

David A. Williams, MD, an internationally-recognized pediatric hematologist and oncologist, has been named Boston Children¹s Hospital¹s first chief scientific officer.

Companies say the new service will include clinical and financial analytics to enable customers to control costs and improve outcomes in the MACRA era. 

With research institutions 'choking on data,' new precision medicine technology helps researchers manage large volumes.

The company will use a sequencing test developed by the health system to find and target individual mutations within cancer tumors.

Peter Embi, MD, an internationally recognized expert in biomedical informatics, will leave his post as interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate dean for research informatics at Ohio State University’s College of Medicine, to join Regenstrief Institute as CEO.

The National Cancer Institute, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have partnered to build NCI an online repository for genomic data, the White House announced as part of its Cancer Moonshot Task Force report.

The industry must move beyond the hype, for starters, but that won’t be easy. Experts discuss the challenges, success stories and technologies of the not-so-distant future.  

The academic medical center also intends to open eight precision medicine centers to advance technologies and measurement tools to improve patient care.

Partnership creates new offering for community oncologists who provide 70 percent of cancers care.