Cerner stated on the day of 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 merely 1 of the various 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 Information Technology, Sync for Science is a primary component of the Precision Medicine Initiative in that it targets to recruit 1 million volunteers for a nationwide research project by the year 2019 – an attempt NIH Director Francis Collins, MD, described as "the greatest, most ambitious research project of this sort ever undertaken."
Indeed, a veritable all-star cast of health IT vendors and agencies are included in the project involving Allscripts, athenahealth, drchrono, Epic and Mckesson, as well as as IBM, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Google’s Verily unit.
IBM, for its part, will join the New York Genome Center to establish an open cancer data repository, leveraging data from Watson to develop new insights into cancer research and personalize treatments through genomic data analysis.
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