Q: What’s the biggest misconception about UnitedHealthcare? That we don’t care, that we’re just a health insurance company that pays or denies medical claims. In reality, helping people is at the core of what we do every day. ...
Q: What need is Strata Oncology addressing? Despite substantial advances in precision oncology, the majority of advanced cancer patients still do not benefit from comprehensive tumor molecular profiling or precision therapy trials....
Q: What need is Workit Health addressing? Drug overdoses killed more Americans last year than were lost during the entire Vietnam War (69,000)....
Q: What research are you or your lab focusing on and why, and what problem(s) are you trying to solve? I direct the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, an Institute that focuses on using genomics and informatics to make medicine more individualized. ...
Q: What patient population is NorthShore University HealthSystem serving and which services are you specializing in? NorthShore is a four hospital community health system with over 100 outpatient medical offices. ...
We had the chance to sit down with Dr. Topol to hear his thoughts on big data, digital health, sensors, and artificial intelligence, some of the newest precision medicine technologies....
Q: What need is Ayasdi addressing? Ayasdi is pioneering the application of AI to value-based care by targeting two of the most complex problems in healthcare: population risk stratification and clinical variation management. ...
Dr. Eric Topol, voted by Modern Healthcare as the most influential physician executive in the United States, shared his thoughts on why people should own and control their own data....
Q: Tell us a little bit about Karius – what problem(s)/need(s) are you trying to address and what technology is behind it to achieve this?...
Dr. Michael Boehnke (University of Michigan) - who pioneered large-scale studies identifying genetic risk in diabetes and bipolar disorder - shared with us some recent insights about recent advances in exome and genome sequencing and their applications to better understand disease biology and etiology of...
