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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Walmart partners with Transcarent for care solution

Retail giant Walmart has teamed up with Transcarent, a health and care platform, to provide a go-to-market solution for self-insured employers and their families.

 

Walgreens launches new business, invests in VillageMD

Walgreens Boots Alliance has launched a new business arm, Walgreens Health, enabled by investments in VillageMD, a primary care provider, and CareCentrix, a post-acute care company.

 

AI predicts tumor metastasis from colon to lymph nodes

A convolutional neural network has proven adept at predicting the spread of colorectal cancer to the lymph nodes using automated analysis of histology slides.

Mobile self-test can serve as early-warning system for Alzheimer’s

Harvard researchers have demonstrated a web-based program that allows cognitively normal individuals to screen themselves, unsupervised, for the type of memory decline that may signal encroaching Alzheimer’s disease.

AI-generated ‘digital twins’ help head off silently approaching sickness

Cambridge University researchers propose using the technique to predict individuals’ health issues over time and intervene early with personalized preventive care.

COVID-19 smartphone diagnostics so close yet so far

Is the world ready for AI-equipped smartphones that can reliably identify or rule out COVID-19 based on audio data from coughing and speaking?

AI right at home in cancer research, but associated clinical improvements slow to show

In cancer research settings, AI has shown strong capabilities for predicting risk, recurrence and survivability over the past 10-plus years. Yet real-world cancer mortality remains largely unchanged to the present day. Why is that?

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Private-insurance policyholders are most satisfied with United Healthcare, Humana

United Healthcare and Humana are the top health insurance providers when it comes to satisfaction rankings.

 

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has sent a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that outlines some of the organization’s central priorities and concerns. 

One product is being pulled from the market, and the other is receiving updated instructions for use.

If the Trump administration continues taking a laissez-faire stance toward AI—including AI used in healthcare—why not let the states go it alone on regulating the technology?