The COPD Foundation, pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, software provider Jvion and Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System teamed up to help patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease avoid readmissions, Jvion announced Oct. 24.

News from Our Partners  Dr. Andrew Pendley is the medical director of the emergency department at Emory Healthcare. A self-professed Operations Nerd, Dr. Pendley has always been fascinated by the conflux of hospital operations, lean principles and medical best practices. Brought together, these can…

Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit, slated for Oct. 23 to Oct. 25 in downtown Cleveland, will focus on advancements in genomics and precision medicine.

Salt Lake City based Intermountain Healthcare's precision medicine initiative, Intermountain Precision Genomics, is teaming up with Pleasanton, Calif.-based 10x Genomics to expand research efforts.

CHOC Children’s (Orange, Calif.). CHOC Children’s is home to the Sharon Disney Lund Medical Intelligence and Innovation Institute, an institute focused innovation and intelligence in pediatric medicine. The institute fosters development in artificial intelligence methodologies and advances in emerging areas…

IBM launched a unified data system, called the "Integrated Analytics System," the company announced Sept. 26.

A team of researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine developed an electronic triage tool to risk-stratify patients in its emergency departments.

A team of researchers from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine developed an electronic triage tool to risk-stratify patients in its emergency departments.

Health Care Service Corp., the Chicago-based operator of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, opened its Customer First Innovation Lab in Dallas Aug. 24.

A team of researchers out of Stanford (Calif.) University developed a cryptographic method called "genome cloaking" to protect participants' privacy during DNA analyses, Wired reports.