Precision medicine
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.
Obama signs 21st Century Cures Act into law, funding precision medicine, Cancer Moonshot, EHR impro…
Vice President Biden joined the president in signing the bill, which passed through Congress with overwhelming approval.
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.