Dr. Eric Topol is hoping the Digital Health Summit at CES will kickstart a consumer health revolution needed to improve patient access to information and drive down healthcare costs. Wednesday’s opening panel discussion was chock-full of soundbites from Scripps Translational Science Institute Chief Academic Officer Topol, Life Technologies CEO Greg Lucier — who said technology […]
Current medical news from today, including: Sequencing the human genome for $1,000; a health reform comic book; and post-breakup Abbott.
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has partnered with Beijing Genomics Institute, or BGI, the largest genomics institute in the world, to do large-scale human sequencing and bioinformatics analysis at the Joint Genome Center at the hospital. BGI@CHOP will focus on genes that underpin rare and common pediatric diseases using next-generation sequencing. CHOP has expertise in […]