precision medicine
Big data, digital tools are great, but building their ecosystem is 'where the rubber meets the road’
Speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, University of Texas System's Dr. Lynda Chin stressed the importance of connecting new technologies in addressing healthcare's failings.
Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron offered Connected Health Conference attendees an update on the progress of NIH’s ambitious population health research.
ReMix, a new technology in the works at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, seeks to make progress toward a new paradigm of treatment – one that's less reliant on endoscopy and surgery, but instead relies on sensors and what scientists call an "in-body GPS" to help make diagnoses and guide drug administration.
As precision medicine and its related technologies take off in healthcare with rocket-like speed, many players in the space are advocating for a balance between innovation and regulation.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based GNS Healthcare, which has developed an analytics tool for precision medicine and population health, raised $10 million from Celgene Corporation, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, and Gi Global Health Fund.
Fitbit Surge
It looks like the NIH may be the next big stakeholder to look to mobile tools for data collection in clinical research, joining the likes of Apple and Google.