IBM Watson is teaming up with Quest Diagnostics to launch Watson Genomics from Quest Diagnostics, a gene sequencing and Watson diagnostic analysis service to help oncologists deliver precision medicine to their patients. Together with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), the service will provide a personalized tumor analysis of a patient’s sequenced genomic tumor that is supported by clinical evidence. As part of the precision medicine partnership, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Executive Health Centre Taps BaseHealth for Genomics-driven Health Assessment Engine
BaseHealth, a comprehensive predictive analytics company for healthcare has inked a partnership with Canada-based Executive Health Centre, one of the leading preventative health care clinics in North America. Through the partnership, Executive Health Centre will leverage BaseHealth’s genomics-based predictive analytics engine to enhance their personalized wellness assessments and action plans. The integration is being rolled out to Executive Health Centre’s patients effective
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N-of-One Raises $7M for Precision Medicine Oncology Decision Support
N-of-One, a precision medicine oncology decision support company has raised $7 million in funding from Providence Ventures and Excel Venture Management. The latest round brings its total funding to $11M. Founded in 2008 by a team of PhD scientists and oncologists, N-of-One analyzes and interprets tumor molecular profiles to help physicians and patients identify diagnostic and treatment strategies from its proprietary database.Working with leading healthcare systems and large commercial labs,
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Orion to Deploy Its Precision Medicine Platform Throughout Minnesota
Orion Health has signed an agreement with Minnesota state-certified health information organization (HIO) Koble-MN to deploy its Amadeus precision medicine platform. Together the Orion Health Amadeus precision medicine platform and Koble-MN services are a winning combination that will best serve the citizens of Minnesota’s health information exchange (HIE).Koble-MN is a Minnesota State-certified Health Information Organization that has been created to connect and serve healthcare communities
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Report: Precision Medicine Already Has Measurable Impact on Patient Outcomes
Over two-thirds of healthcare organizations say precision medicine is already having a measurable effect on patient outcomes, according to a new study from Oxford Economics and SAP. The research study includes a survey of 120 healthcare professionals from research, life sciences, and healthcare organizations in North America and Europe, along with in-depth interviews with experts in the field. The report highlights what healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations are doing to accelerate the
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Intermountain, Stanford Form Clinical Genomics Partnership to Advance Precision Medicine
Intermountain Healthcare and the Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) are teaming up on a new collaborative research program focused on scientific advances in precision health and medicine. The joint research team will be composed of members of Stanford Genome Technology Center (SGTC) and the Precision Genomics Core Laboratory. Together, the joint team of researchers, clinicians and other experts will work on solving clinical issues for patients using cutting-edge technologies that enable
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Report: Precision Medicine Market to Reach $88B by 2022
The global precision market is expected to reach to $88 billion by 2022 at an estimated CAGR of 12.60% from 2015 to 2022 with North America and Europe emerging as leaders, according to Global Precision Medicine Market -- Estimation & Forecast (2015-2022) report. This is led by President Obama's recent announcement to request $1B for fund the Cancer 'Moonshot' initiative for researchers to accelerate the development of new cancer detection and treatments. Presently, the main focus of the
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What is the Relationship Between Precision Medicine & Predictive Analytics?
Editor's Note: Prakash Menon is the CEO at Basehealth, a science and technology leader that adds genomic precision to predictive analytics and population health management.
Let’s not bury the lead. It’s finally possible to effectively model diseases and predict risk, based on an individual’s unique clinical, lifestyle, environmental and genetic data. True predictive analytics for healthcare have arrived at long last.
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Syapse Raises $25M to Transform Patient Care Through Precision Medicine
Syapse, a Palo Alto, CA-based company enabling healthcare systems to implement precision medicine programs has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Ascension Ventures, a subsidiary of Ascension, the nation's largest non-profit and Catholic health system. Existing investors Social Capital Partnership and Safeguard Scientifics also participated in this new funding round. The company will use this funding round to drive the rapid expansion of its Syapse Precision Medicine
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Assurex Health Nabs $15M for Precision Medicine for Behavioral Health
Assurex Health, Inc., a commercial-stage, informatics-based precision medicine company providing treatment decision support to healthcare providers for behavioral health and chronic pain conditions, has secured an additional $15 million in equity funding.
Assurex Health’s proprietary technology is based on pharmacogenomics— the study of the genetic factors that influence an individual’s response to drug treatments—as well as evidence-based medicine and clinical pharmacology. The GeneSight
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