Technology
Cancer center switches focus on fund-raising as problems mount | The New York Times
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer center is shifting the focus of its annual fund-raising campaign from "harnessing big data" to patient care. The switch comes after complaints about how Paige.AI, founded by people with connections to the hospital, has been using pathologists' work and patient data.
Patient appointment scheduling jumps 131% with new IT at UAB Medicine | Healthcare IT News
After putting online appointment scheduling in place, UAB Medicine has gotten patients to spend much more time on their site. But validating which providers treat which conditions still leaves something to be desired, since most hospital leaders still use Microsoft Excel for the task.
Precision medicine
High hopes for a gene therapy come with fears over cost | The Wall Street Journal
A gene-editing procedure to treat vision problems costs $850,000 for treatment of both eyes. The treatment, Luxturna, is made by Spark Therapeutics, which sometimes covers some of the expense.
NIH establishes three genome centers to support PMI cohort | Health Data Management
The three genome centers, with $28.6 million in funding, will sequence genomic data from biosamples from people who've volunteered to be a part of the All of Us precision medicine research program.
In other news
Google to acknowledge privacy mistakes as U.S. seeks input | Reuters
"We acknowledge that we have made mistakes in the past, from which we have learned, and improved our robust privacy program," the Google chief privacy officer wrote in testimony for a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee. He didn't point to specifics, but Google and parent company Alphabet have a history of misleading privacy practices, including allegedly illegally tracking iPhone and Android users.
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