Research consortium building scaffolding for Precision Medicine Initiative’s All of Us
Last week, the National Institutes of Health, which is heading the initiative, rebranded the Precision Medicine Initiative's cohort program as "All of Us."
Precision medicine and health privacy are leading to a converged path around big data in healthcare
They want to harness “big data” to solve big problems in healthcare.
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When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Morning Read: Precision Medicine collaborations, Baxalta and Precision BioScience ink $1.7B CAR T deal
Also, prolific life science entrepreneur and investor Alfred Mann has died and Doctors Without Borders has taken exception to Otsuka Pharmaceutical's tuberculosis treatment price tag.
What could the White House’s precision medicine love fest mean for the 2016 elections?
We're heading into the 2016 elections, after all, where we've got candidates on both sides of the aisle reviling the drug pricing of the pharmaceutical industry. The Precision Medicine Initiative could help convince the public that the biopharmaceutical industry isn't completely stuffed with bad guys.
Inova Health System announces plan to launch a $100M venture fund dedicated to precision medicine
Inova will be among about 40 private-sector organizations from around the U.S. that will also announce their own commitments to precision medicine during an event at the White House.
PHR startup PicnicHealth joins Precision Medicine Initiative at White House
Unlike so many failed PHR providers, PicnicHealth offers data-aggregation services, not just an electronic folder that leaves patients essentially on their own to collect their own health records and test results.
Cambridge’s Genospace helping launch Newfoundland precision medicine initiative
Cambridge precision medicine software startup Genospace is providing the analytics for a 100,000-participant precision medicine initiative in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Morning Read: Meet President Obama’s precision medicine czar
Also, Perrigo responds to Mylan, changes in the FDA's transparency, and Eli Lilly's Jardiance pays dividends.
6 Precision Medicine partnerships reflective of the new Intel Collaborative Cancer Cloud
Much like Intel's new Collaborative Cancer Cloud, several precision medicine partnerships are springing up around the country. Here are six more.
FDA launches open-source platform for precision medicine
The open-sourced platform, called precisionFDA, will help researchers collaborate on NGS data study and will help regulators determine guidelines for precision medicine policy.
A Deep-dive Into Specialty Pharma
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
ONC hosts informatics grand rounds; New HIT Precision Medicine Task Force to meet
This week will see two firsts in health IT within the federal government, Dr. Jon White, deputy national coordinator in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said at MedCity ENGAGE.
Precision medicine ‘Champions of Change’ caught by surprise
Amy Gleason, one of nine "Champions of Change" for precision medicine, wants to tell President Obama that consumers are as important as geneticists in making the Precision Medicine Initiative successful.
White House honors 9 as precision medicine “Champions of Change”
The Champions of Change designation spans a range of issues — from foster care to climate education to those leading local efforts in pushing forward the Affordable Care Act.
Here are the private sector folks that are helping shape Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative
Looks like Obama has appointed quite the A-team to help the Precision Medicine Initiative shapeshift into something with some actual… shape. The $215 million initiative was first discussed at a two-day workshop mid-February that helped flesh out the plan’s aims. This is step two. Outside of the expected team of academicians and policy experts, there’s a smattering of private sector […]
UCLA Health to integrate genomic data into EHR in pilot
UCLA Health will soon begin a pilot project with Seattle-based startup ActX that will integrate genomic patient data into its Epic EHR system, with the eventual intent of applying precision medicine to a large-scale patient base. ActX, founded in 2012 and just out of stealth mode six months ago, collects a patient’s genetic information by […]