Precision Medicine

Mount Sinai Health System, ARC Innovation Center and Nvidia are working together to apply AI to vast datasets that could unlock genomic insights and help researchers better understand how patients could respond to therapies.

As pathology moves into the digital era, clinical laboratories, academic medical centers and health systems are navigating unprecedented volumes of high-resolution whole-slide image data, siloed archives and the growing imperative to deploy AI-driven workflows.

Shannon Kennedy, healthcare innovation, technology chair and senior executive fellow at The Digital Economist, previews her upcoming HIMSS26 immersive workshop.

CustoMED uses 3D printing to create patient-specific surgical instruments designed to precisely match each patient's anatomy. Dr. Amit Zabtani, the company’s cofounder and chief medical officer and an orthopedic surgeon at UCLA, explains.

Sergio Calvo, general manager of theranostics at GE HealthCare, joins MobiHealthNews to discuss how combining molecular imaging and targeted therapy is personalizing cancer care.

While hospitals and health systems continue to face an array of significant challenges, human-centered innovations that pair data with agility are helping improve caregiver experience and patient care, the research firm says. 

The field of targeted therapy could evolve to enable even more precise, individualized treatment strategies, says Sergio Calvo, general manager of theranostics at GE HealthCare, who discusses the company's role in developing and investing the technology.

Also, Google has introduced MedGemma 1.5 in India to support its national AI healthcare development.

The AI-driven National University Centre for Digestive Health has seen reduced cancellations, repeat procedures, and fewer avoidable complications from patients since opening in 2024.

According to Emirates Health Services' H.E. Mubaraka Ibrahim, the UAE is using clinical and non-clinical AI tools across its facilities to give clinicians time back and to support precision medicine and healthier communities.