Healthcare IT News: Cerner said on Thursday that it will pilot an open standardized application as part of the Sync for Science project within President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. And it was only one of the several health IT vendors that hopped on board precision medicine during the President’s Summit.
Driven by the National Institutes of Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Sync for Science is a core component of the Precision Medicine Initiative in that it aims to recruit one million volunteers for a nationwide research project by 2019 – an effort NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, described as "the largest, most ambitious research project of this sort ever undertaken."
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