Practice Transformation Med school will emphasize data-driven care Kaiser Permanente’s high-tech school of medicine will emphasize team-based care informed by data. The school, planned to open in 2020, will incorporate the latest 3-D and touch-interface simulation technology, but students will…
Practice Transformation 250,000 vets will get genetic testing Individual patients may break down or metabolize medications differently, affecting how certain ones work in some people and don’t work well in others. Genetic tests reveal those factors precisely, pointing doctors to…
March 13, 2019: Sanford Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announces a program that will provide pharmacogenetic testing to U.S. veterans at no cost to veterans or taxpayers. By Katherine Capps, Co-Founder and Executive Director, GTMRx Institute March…
By Katherine Capps, Co-Founder and Executive Director, GTMRx Institute March 18, 2019 Last week, I had the opportunity to witness history—the announcement and video of the largest pharmacogenetic testing effort ever undertaken (check out highlights from the event—you might recognize someone…
April 3, 2018, Vienna, Va. – The high price of prescriptions at the pharmacy counter isn’t the only drug cost problem in the U.S. A new study finds that illness and death resulting from the wrong prescription, the wrong dose,…
By Terry McInnis, president, Blue Thorn Inc. | June 2016 A health care model that yields a positive ROI, improves care and leaves patients and clinicians satisfied? Can't be done, you say? You're close: Few areas in health care can claim…
By Katherine H. Capps, president, Health2 Resources | June 2016 If you want to upset me, tell me "Oh, it's just semantics." Words, and the way we use them, matter. How we label things matters. If you need ibuprofen, you don't…
May 24, 2016, Vienna, Va.– What if there were experts who worked alongside physicians to adjust and maximize the benefit of all medicines a person takes? Professionals who could help a grandfather control his diabetes and hypertension with fewer side…
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