AltheaDx, Inc., a San Diego, CA-based commercial stage molecular diagnostics company specializing in the field of personalized medicine has raised $27 million in Series D funding. The company is a CAP-accredited, CLIA-certified laboratory and plans to utilize the funding to expands its sales force and marketing efforts to grow internationally.IDgenetix, the company’s product testing portfolio, enables personalized therapeutic decisions for patients suffering from some of the most prevalent
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Aurora Cancer Care Launches Precision Medicine Program To Help Patients Gain More Access to Clinical Trials
Aurora Cancer Care, a not-for-profit health care provider in Wisconsin and northern Illinois is launching a precision medicine program powered by Syapse, a provider of precision oncology solutions. The new oncology precision medicine program will help physicians and researchers provide more care options for patients whose cancer is resistant to conventional treatment options like radiation and chemotherapy.The new multi-disciplinary Oncology Precision Medicine Clinic will be located inside
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Aprima EHR Integrates With ActX to Bring Precision Medicine Into The Physician’s Office
Aprima, a physician pratice-focused EHR provider has announced an integration partnership with Genomic Decision Support platform ActX to bring precision medicine into the physician’s office. The addition of the ActX platform provides Aprima clients with access to genomics in everyday patient care and delivers clinically actionable insights that facilitate personalized medication and screening choices based on a patient’s unique genetic profile.Imagine, during your office visit, your physician
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HL7 Publishes Domain Analysis Model for Clinical Sequencing: 5 Things to Know
Health Level Seven® International (HL7), an authority for health IT interoperability and provider of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, today announced that it has published the HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Sequencing, a model which captures precision medicine’s use cases to facilitate interoperability of genetic and genomic data. Here are five things to know about the new model: 1. . This domain analysis model (DAM) was the basis for the design of FHIR
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Sweat Is The New Blood: Why Sweat Analysis Is The Next-Gen of Wearable Diagnostics
Editor's Note: Dr. Sonia Sousa is CEO and Co-Founder of Kenzen, a startup that creates next-gen wearable diagnostics based on sweat analysis. Dr. Sousa founded several companies and has over 15 issued and pending patents in the US and worldwide (in photonics, predictive models, lasers, spectroscopy and more). With a PhD in Photonics and Neural Networks, Dr. Sousa is committed to advancing precision medicine and preventing health issues through wearable diagnostics that are clinically relevant,
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Novartis Selects Cota Healthcare’s Data Analytics Platform to Develop Therapies for Breast Cancer Patients
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation has signed a multi-year agreement with Cota Healthcare, a data and technology platform for value-based precision medicine to help improve clinical and cost outcomes for breast cancer patients. As part of this multi-year agreement, Novartis will leverage Cota's research-grade, real-world evidence, web-based analysis and visualization tools, and be supported by Cota's medical, data science, and technology experts. Utilizing the real-world evidence and
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NTT Data, Oracle Collaborate to Bring Healthcare Big Data to the Cloud
NTT DATA, Inc. announced the expansion of its existing relationship with Oracle to include end-to-end cloud capabilities for Oracle’s Healthcare Foundation, a unified healthcare analytics platform. The platform provides data integration and warehousing of clinical, financial, administrative and -omics modules in a cloud solution to customers worldwide. The healthcare cloud offering will provide organizations the ability to easily unify, grow or replace their existing healthcare data warehouse
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3 Keys to Achieving Clinically Actionable Precision Medicine for Providers
Oracle’s Jonathan Sheldon shares his perspective on precision medicine and explains how providers can prepare for the transformation that lies ahead.The term personalized healthcare may seem like a buzzword, but it’s real and developing faster than imagined in the form of precision medicine. Using a patient’s genetic profile in conjunction with lifestyle and environmental variables to create individual treatment plans—what could be more personal than that?Thanks to technology, we are starting to
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VA, Flow Health To Build AI-Powered Med Knowledge Graph for Veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has signed a five-year deal with San Francisco, CA-based Flow Health to build a medical knowledge graph with deep learning to inform medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize care plans. Flow Health is building the world’s largest knowledge graph of medicine and genomics from over 30 petabytes of longitudinal clinical data drawn from VA records on 22 million veterans spanning over 20 years. All patient information
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Mount Sinai Establishes Robotics Institute to Accelerate Robotic Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System announced this week it has established the Mount Sinai Robotics Institute (MSRI) to advance patient care and augment research and training. Since the first minimally invasive robotic surgery to treat head and neck cancer at Mount Sinai in 2008 surgeons at Mount Sinai have been on the forefront of pioneering robotic surgery techniques. Groundbreaking work such as new techniques and refinements, and complication reduction programs in these areas has distinguished MSRI as
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