Here are four observations:
1. Chief Data Scientist Mike Draugelis and his team are “building prototypes of new care pathways,” according to the article.
2. The use of big data increases healthcare quality, with algorithms already giving healthcare providers the ability to flag certain patients at risk of sepsis.
3. The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine also created the Institute of Biomedical Informatics, which will research precision medicine.
4. This institute is specifically researching how genomics and “phenotypes” relate.
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