precision health

HIMSS21Europe
By  Tammy Lovell 02:15 am June 1, 2021
As the world struggles to recover from the outfall of COVID-19, the role of digital health has come under the spotlight. Healthcare experts from the UK will be among the European leaders to discuss this new paradigm at the virtual HIMSS21 & Health 2.0 European Health Conference, on 7-9 June 2021. The UK is known for its world-leading expertise in genomics. Prof Sharon Peacock, executive...
By  Dave Muoio 04:15 pm August 12, 2020
A new investigation of roughly two million Medicare beneficiary claims suggests that machine learning (ML) could be used to predict which patients are at greatest risk of severe respiratory infections, and to place them in more appropriate care facilities in their area. The study was published online in the American Journal of Managed Care and funded by the HEALTH[at]SCALE Corporation, a...
By  Dave Muoio 01:35 pm May 1, 2018
The National Institutes of Health announced today that national enrollment for its All of Us Research Program — an ambitious effort to collect demographic, health, genomic, and other data from at least 1 million Americans for use in healthcare research — will open on May 6 for those aged 18 years and older. To kick off the launch, the organization will be holding community education events in...
By  Heather Mack 03:40 pm June 6, 2017
Hearing the word “precision” in healthcare typically conjures ideas of cutting edge technologies and treatments like targeted genetic therapy. But it has another meaning in primary care: leveraging data from a variety of sources to deliver personalized, preventive care. “It’s a way to bring the big data – whether that is on the population level, from digital health devices like wearables, or...