Precision Medicine

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.

The president, along with researchers and scientists, explored the ways technology will improve healthcare and other industries at the day-long conference on Thursday.

Healthcare IT News asks HIT professionals to take part in an important new survey that will study the place of EHRs, cybersecurity, population health, Big Data and more in the year ahead.  

New National Institutes of Health funding will go toward neural dust, autism, Alzheimer’s, stroke and brain-related conditions.

The National Institutes invests a new $5.5 million to start recruitment and build the infrastructure.

Startup has developed imaging platform for gaining insight into cancer, infectious diseases, cognitive disorders and more.

Health and Human Service Department said it is working with DNA Electronics on technology to determine genetic code within four hours to enable a faster and more accurate public health response to pandemic influenza and antibiotic-resistant infections.

"During National Health IT Week, we recommit ourselves to improving the health of our citizenry using the breakthrough technologies of our time and reaching for the next frontier of innovation," said Obama.