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Microsoft wades into healthcare R&D. What’s behind this trend?

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  • Microsoft is engaged in numerous health research projects in a mutually beneficial relationship with the medical community, according to an article on the Microsoft website.
  • One Microsoft project is using machine learning to sift through massive amounts of data on cancer biology to make precision medicine more possible. Another is a cloud-based tool that creates computerized models of biological processes associated with cancer progression.
  • Microsoft’s excursion into medical research is just one of many made in the recent past by technology companies not typically associated with healthcare.

How some providers are stoking entrepreneurial fires to ensure healthy financials

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In an era of falling inpatient rates and value-based reimbursement, hospitals and health systems are seeking new ways to grow their revenue streams. For some, that has meant wearing an entrepreneurial hat and marketing home-grown solutions.

One example is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which two years ago created UPMC Enterprises to develop and commercialize novel technologies.

The Next Trillion Dollar Industry Is Inside You

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Modern medicine is pretty fantastic, right? Wrong. Wow, you walked right into that honey trap. Pharmaceuticals are incredibly impressive and most of us wouldn’t be alive without them, but this industry is set to skyrocket in innovation over the next few decades, making our current practices seem as primitive as the 130-pound mobile phone that seemed really futuristic in ’90s.

Medicine’s Future, From a Leader in Genome Editing and Stem Cells

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Hello. I’m Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape. Welcome to One-on-One. We’re thrilled to have Chad Cowan, an associate professor at Harvard University who is at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Chad and I have both been principal investigators on the induced pluripotent stem cell (IPSC) grant. I have looked to Chad as a leader in this field and he has been prolific in recent years.

Discussion on issues in adaptive design for clinical trials with Dr. Deepak L. Bhatt and Dr. Cyrus Mehta

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5 health and medicine issues to watch for at the Democratic convention

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5 health and medicine issues to watch for at the Democratic convention

Hillary Clinton led a health care reform effort in the 1990s, promoted medical research as a senator, and has been bashing price-hiking drug companies on the campaign trail and in TV ads.

So there’s every reason to expect her to make health care a major theme when she accepts the Democratic presidential nomination in Philadelphia on Thursday night. What she says about the future of medical research, public health, and the uninsured will give a valuable preview of what her priorities would be — and how far she’s willing to go to co-opt the ideas of her defeated rival, Bernie Sanders.

Here are the five biggest things to watch in health and medicine:

How ‘digitizing you and me’ could revolutionize medicine. At least in theory

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How ‘digitizing you and me’ could revolutionize medicine. At least in theory

There’s a whole lot of hype around precision medicine.

Proponents — up to and including President Barack Obama — predict a revolution that will bring us medical treatments as precisely tailored as a bespoke suit: Drug doses adjusted to your genome. Chemotherapy customized to your tumor’s DNA. Diets adapted perfectly to your risk for diabetes.

To propel research, Obama has proposed spending a $215 million on a Precision Medicine Initiative. The first step: Rally 1 million volunteers (or even more) to give up a slew of intimate details about their health, medical history, diet, lifestyle, genetics — and even the granular details of the bacteria that line their guts.

How social factors are driving precision medicine

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Mention precision medicine, and genomics quickly comes to the top of mind. While genomics and clinically oriented analysis are extremely valuable in implementing precision medicine as the next step in population health management, they are really only a small part of the big picture.

Increasingly, the value of environmental, social and lifestyle factors that live outside the medical system is also getting recognized in the effective implementation of personalized medicine in this country. The federal government’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) that calls for $215 million in fiscal year 2016 to support research in this area focuses not just on genetics and biology, but also behavior and environment — “with the goal of developing more effective ways to prolong health and treat disease.”

Intermountain, Stanford forge clinical genomics and precision medicine partnership

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Researchers aim to develop new technologies to solve pressing issues in healthcare.

 

The NIH, in pursuit of Precision Medicine, tries to avoid ghosts of its past

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The NIH, in pursuit of precision medicine, tries to avoid ghosts of its past

NIH Director Francis Collins, seen here with President Obama, says the Precision Medicine Initiative will have to be implemented quickly.