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In 2017, the American Cancer Society awarded $112 million for cancer research.^[1] The National Institute of Health FY17 budget for cancer research was nearly $6 billion.^[2]

Pharma companies are pouring billions of R&D dollars into developing new treatments for cancer and are looking for the best ways to maximize those investments. One of the, most effective research tools available and one increasingly leveraged by biopharma is artificial intelligence (AI), used to help unlock the complex mechanisms of cancer.

Oncology is an enormously complicated field, so it’s no surprise that...

The new year has just begun and the flurry of predictions for 2019 are popping up everywhere. Healthcare thought leaders have joined in offering their forecasts and ruminations around what we can expect over the next 12 months. We did the same and asked prominent thought leaders to offer their opinions in our prediction post earlier this year.

But what about the predictions made a year ago? How did the 2018 predictions actually turn out and what will continue into 2019? 

We took a look back to see what we could find. As expected, there were hits and misses but there were five that were on...

If “following the money” is the quickest path to the root of a trend, then 2019 promises to be the year artificial intelligence takes center stage in the healthcare industry.

By 2024, AI in the U.S. healthcare market is set to exceed $10 billion according to a recent Global Market Insights report.^[1] As nearly eight out of ten healthcare executives who responded to a recent cross-industry survey said their organizations are ramping up investments in big data analytics and AI, it should come as no surprise that the market is truly ramping up.^[2] Nearly 80 healthcare AI startups raised their...

Some experts estimate that between 60 to 80 percent of a person’s health condition is influenced by social factors, far outpacing the impact of direct clinical care¹.

Nutrition, housing, transportation, literacy and education, safety, language and social support are social determinants of health (SDOH) and are key drivers of health outcomes.

The World Health Organization defines SDOH as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.”²

Leaders across healthcare are recognizing the power of...

We asked industry thought leaders from across the healthcare ecosystem to weigh in on their predictions, hopes and ruminations for the year ahead.

From cancer therapy to data sharing to patient apps to affordability, we share some of 2019's most thoughtful predictions.

Here's what healthcare's thought leaders are saying.

During the holiday season, our thoughts turn gratefully to those who made our progress possible, our work enjoyable and our lives enriched.

There’s an often-quoted adage that if you want something done right, do it yourself. Unfortunately, in healthcare, that’s not a reality for most patients. Instead, those suffering from illness and disease must wait for researchers and clinicians to find and develop treatments and therapies that can provide a cure, treatment or relief.

But things are changing. iConquerMS is a ground-breaking initiative that empowers people with multiple sclerosis (MS) to help drive MS research and accelerate efforts toward improving treatments and finding a cure for the disease.

It’s Thanksgiving and a good time to remember the pilgrims. Nearly 400 years ago, a hardy band of about 100 Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower, heading for America. They were willing to brave the perils of the Atlantic in order to fulfill their hopes and dreams of a new life.

After 66 days at sea, they reached land and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they    established a colony. But their struggles weren’t over. They faced a cold, hard New England winter and nearly half the settlers perished.

A year after their arrival, following the first harvest, the Pilgrims invited...

Between 2006 and 2016 there were over 2 million scholarly articles published around the globe. Of those, more than 25 percent – 568,000 – were focused on medicine, more than double the next area of study¹.

Despite the spike in medical knowledge, there is still a struggle to understand why some  treatments work while others do not and the reality is that there is still much we don’t know.

In recent years, there has been equal parts hope and hype over Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how to use it to unravel human disease more quickly and efficiently. In a recent article in Forbes,...

Most allergy sufferers know that receiving a series of allergy shots can prevent sniffling, sneezing, and red eyes. But not everyone is aware of how it actually works. The shots contain a very small amount of the allergen, the thing that is causing the problem. While the allergen introduced into the system isn’t enough to cause sickness, it does set off an alarm telling the body’s immune system it’s time to get to work. Over time, the doses get larger and eventually help the body develop a tolerance to the allergen. In other words, the body becomes immune to the invader.

This concept is a...