Precision Medicine
Precision Medicine
Researchers identify biomarker for progression and drug response to glioblastoma.
Analytics
Using big data to find incidents of medication nonadherence – and using it to tailor patient interventions – is a key component to population health, says Harvard's Niteesh Choudhry.
Precision Medicine
The Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies - PACT - is a five-year, $215 million collaboration and part of the Cancer Moonshot.
Electronic Health Records
Cerner, athenahealth and eClinicalWorks said they are incorporating new data types, such as social determinants, population health and precision medicine to make EHRs more “comprehensive.”
Interoperability
Seven national genomic laboratory hubs will become operational by November 2018.
Precision Medicine
The goal is to show whether screening patients for the presence of circulating tumor DNA – known as ctDNA – can detect breast cancer using a blood draw.
Analytics
In some cases, more data is needed to draw conclusions, and in others, the tech just isn’t there yet, John Quackenbush, a computational biologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, says.
Precision Medicine
Prestigious prize highlights promising new direction in brain cancer research at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.
Precision Medicine
Two centers will share a $2 million National Cancer Institute grant to study cancer health disparities.
Patient Engagement
Allowing patients to become partners with practitioners in their care is where an effective wellness plan and prevention starts.