Morning Headlines 10/18/16
Biden outlines five-year plan for ‘cancer moonshot’
Vice President Biden delivered his final status report on the administration’s cancer moonshot, laying out a five-year plan and reiterating the need for continued funding from Congress and private organizations.
In The Lancet, Eric Topol, MD discusses the value that digitally connected point-of-care diagnostic tests would have locally and in resource-poor remote regions of the world.
In England, overweight soldiers facing discharge for failing the Army fitness test are being issued Fitbits to help them get back in shape.
Medical College spins out startup
A local paper covers RPRD Diagnostics, a spinoff from the Medical College of Wisconsin developing DNA tests to match patients with the pharmaceuticals that will work best for them.
The insurers say it's the providers who are impeding electronic streamlining of prior auths?They must be smoking some really good…