Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has launched Navican Genomics, a research and testing startup to speed progress in precision medicine. The new company’s mission is to help physicians at Intermountain and around the world identify personalized options to treat and prevent cancer by combining targeted therapies with rapid improvements in technology and research. The idea is ...
Peter Embi, MD, an internationally recognized expert in biomedical informatics, will leave his post as interim chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and associate dean for research informatics at Ohio State University’s College of Medicine, to join Regenstrief Institute as CEO. Powered by WPeMatico
Internet users reported major accessibility issues early Friday, as a slew of major websites were rendered temporarily inaccessible, including Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, Etsy, The New York Times and SoundCloud. Powered by WPeMatico
The joint venture of Independence Blue Cross and DaVita HealthCare Partners said it will offer doctors access to athenahealth’s cloud services for analytics, care coordination, risk-stratification. Powered by WPeMatico
The massive scheme at Fort Hood, Texas, involved prescribing pain creams to military personnel and disguising payments. Powered by WPeMatico
The discovery could potentially contribute to drugs that prevent birth defects in some babies born to women who contracted the virus while pregnant. Powered by WPeMatico
As she kicked off the Anita Borg Institute’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing on October 19 in Houston, IBM Chairwoman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty started with a short history lesson on women pioneers in technology. The three-day event Rometty keynoted is billed as the largest gathering of women technologists in the world. ...
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced nearly $2.3 billion in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program grants awarded to cities, states, and local community-based organizations in fiscal year (FY) 2016. This funding supports a coordinated and comprehensive system of care that provides lifesaving HIV health care, support services, and essential medications to ...
The National Cancer Institute, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have partnered to build NCI an online repository for genomic data, the White House announced as part of its Cancer Moonshot Task Force report. Powered by WPeMatico
Trump called the Affordable Care Act bad healthcare at the most expensive price; Clinton said Trump’s tax plan would have dire consequences for Medicare. Powered by WPeMatico
