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Examples of innovation that can help shape 21st century medicine were recognized by the American Medical Association at its annual meeting this week.

James L. Madara, MD, addressed the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting, stressing the need to weed out electronic products that waste providers’ time and confuse patients.

The company is joining with the American Diabetes Association to improve patient outcomes through the cognitive computing of Watson and the association’s diabetes database.

Startup intends to use the funding to scale its EHR-agnostic cloud-based service and analytics for helping doctors determine the best treatment options for patients.

The research and advocacy group is calling upon data scientists and computational analysts to leverage its database to expand understanding of the disease.

Vice President Joe Biden unveiled the precision medicine database on Monday, speaking at its operations center at the University of Chicago. Genomic Data Commons is a National Cancer Institute initiative and is central to the National Cancer Moonshot and Precision Medicine Initiative.

Froedtert medical Director James Thomas said Watson for Clinical Trial Matching is expected to make better matches and do so more quickly.

Providence Health and Services also joins consortium of hospitals teaming with Syapse to establish OPN that will advance data sharing and speed development of personalized cancer treatments.

Executives said that implementing the electronic health record system will enable it to add dialysis, rehabilitation, outpatient and substance abuse services that help the hospital grow.

Intermountain also led a $12 million funding round that Zebra said it will use to build out its analytics engine with machine learning algorithms for diagnosing imaging scans.