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September 19, 2019 - DeepMind, a UK-based company, is teaming up with Google Health to tap into expertise in areas like artificial intelligence, app development, data security, and cloud storage. For the last three years, DeepMind has built a team to tackle complex problems in healthcare. Alongside teams at Google, DeepMind will work to build products that support care teams and improve patient...
New Tools Push the Boundaries of Precision Medicine
Precision medicine initiatives are taking hold at healthcare organizations as providers begin to incorporate genetic and molecular data into treatment decisions for patients. In fact, according to "Trends in Precision Medicine Adoption" by Oracle, 62 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed "participate in research activities to drive biomarker discovery or translational research." Another 12 percent have plans to participate in precision medicine studies in the next two years. "Precision medicine is vital to advancing medicine, and critical to its success is the underlying technology needed to manage the large volumes of data it requires," Andy Alasso, global vice president of Oracle Health Sciences, said in a press release. Several organizations, such as the Mayo Clinic and the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif., have already made the infrastructure changes necessary to support more robust data storage and the interoperability necessary to facilitate precision medicine projects.