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Health IT Stakeholders Sign On to Advance Precision Medicine Initiative

Healthcare Informatics: On the anniversary of the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative, the White House hosted a summit to outline key actions being taken so far to advance the initiative, including a number of announcements and commitments from health IT stakeholders.

President Obama’s initiative aims to pioneer a new model of patient-powered research to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients. The $215 million investment will provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH), together with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) support for various projects.

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