Tech billionaire Sean Parker announced a $250 million grant for cancer immunotherapy research that will include 40 laboratories and 300 researchers from six top cancer centers.

A new partnership will connect Cleveland Clinic providers with CVS MinuteClinic customers in Ohio for online and mobile doctor visits through the American Well telehealth platform.

Researchers believe they may have found real-life men and women of “steel”—genetically speaking, that is—who have survived and thrived despite genetic mutations that should have resulted in serious and possibly deadly childhood diseases, according to results of a study recently published in Nature Biotechnology.

IBM and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have partnered to create the first advisor for people fighting cancer, powered by Watson cognitive computing.

A new study shows the potential for digital health offerings to improve care for patients with hypertension and Type 2 diabetes by reducing blood pressure and LDL cholesterol levels while leading to increased control of blood pressure.

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, Johns Hopkins University's commercialization arm, plans to launch a health-focused accelerator, reports The Baltimore Sun. 

BOSTON—“Blockchain is going to be the most disruptive technology in this space aside from data analytics,” predicted John Mattison, MD, chief medical information officer and assistant medical director for Kaiser Permanente, speaking at Bio-IT World Congress.

(San Jose, CA)—April 11, 2016—Zoeticx, Inc. has been named as one of the highest ranked middleware Electronic Health Record (EHR) integrators in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by Black Book Research in the first quarter of 2016. The survey, in association with its annual interoperability survey  of 2,012 provider Health Information Exchange (HIE) users and 2,300 payer HIE users, along with 4,100 prospective HIE users, finds that payers are accelerating private HIE executions while providers are evaluating HIE replacements, middleware and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources(FHIR) options.