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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In addition to benefiting from less invasive testing, simultaneous mapping of multiple biomarkers of genomic alterations, rather than one biomarker at a time is expected to increase access to multi-gene panel and next-generation sequencing tests (comprehensive genomic profiling/testing).

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Leveraging the AI Opportunity for Healthcare Unstructured Data

HIT Consultant

Krishna Subramanian, Co-Founder at Komprise Unstructured data – such as medical images, scans and lab reports – opens the door to a wide range of exciting new possibilities in the world of healthcare. Text documents containing medical notes or patient evaluations. Specialized data, such as genomic sequencing results, are larger still.

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

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Thanks to decades of medical research, we now understand that disease is not a completely random process. Since the human genome was sequenced over 20 years ago, enormous strides have been made in understanding how variation in the DNA code within us affects our chances of disease. People who smoke are more likely to get lung cancer.

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In charting a future course for healthcare, let’s think bigger

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This article was co-written with Dr. Kevin Vigilante , chief medical officer at Booz Allen Hamilton. Biometric sensors can look at trends instead of a single measurement in time, while patient friendly applications can be used for medication reminders or to schedule follow-up appointments. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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