Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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Ochsner Innovation Center enters into digital health partnership

Ochsner Health System's innovationOchsner, its innovation lab and accelerator, is partnering with Evidation Health, a company launched by GE Ventures and Stanford Health Care.

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UnitedHealth warns of significant losses in health insurance exchange products

UnitedHealth Group significantly reduced its earnings projections for 2015 in large part because of a “continuing deterioration” in plans it offers on the health insurance exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Precision Medicine funding opportunities include coordinating center and biobank

The National Institutes of Health has released the first set of funding opportunities set to build the Precision Medicine Initiative.

PrecisionFDA released in closed beta form

PrecisionFDA, an open-source cloud platform for genomic and bioinformatics information, has been released in a closed beta form by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Baldrige Award goes to two healthcare organizations

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker has named four U.S. organizations as the 2015 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence. 

AEGIS' Touchstone Project to help providers implement FHIR

AEGIS.net, creator of the AEGIS Developers Integration Lab (DIL), has introduced the Touchstone Project, a next generation cloud-based testing platform that applies conformance and interoperability testing in a test-driven-development (TDD) integrated ecosystem.

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AMIA supports move to outcome-based payment but seeks quality measurement changes

Federal officials should use new payment policies to reassess how providers are required to use informatics tools, and rethink how quality is measured in a digital world, said AMIA in its comments responding to a request for information (RFI) about how best to implement a range of policies required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. 

ACP releases position paper on concierge medicine and direct patient contracting

The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a position paper on Nov. 10 on the increasing popularity of concierge medicine and direct patient contracting practices (DPCPs) and patient care implications of the arrangements. The paper was simultaneously published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Cardiologist compensation still rising, especially in invasive and interventional cardiology

Updated compensation data includes good news for multiple subspecialties. The new report also examines private equity's impact on employment models and how much male cardiologists earn compared to females.

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FDA’s tirzepatide decision creates uncertainty for patients—and leads to a lawsuit

When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

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Cardiology groups cheer new bill that would improve access to Medicare claims data

If passed, this bill would help clinician-led clinical registries explore Medicare data for research purposes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American College of Cardiology both shared public support for the bipartisan legislation. 

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