Precision Medicine Summit

IBM and NY Genome Center create open cancer data repository

IBM and the New York Genome Center announced work on a new HIPAA compliant data repository. It will include the entire genome, exome and phenotypic data, which sets it apart from what currently exists in data collection of this kind.

By Nicole Oran

eBook

Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience

This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.

By Care Logistics

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.

By PurpleLab