[TgeekB]

It actually already has significant real world application, just not on a mass scale. There's still a lot of kinks to iron out in terms of taking what's being discovered about specific genes and genomic sequencing and translating it into personalized medical care in a doctor's office. And the cost of genomic sequencing itself has drastically been reduced, and continues to decrease in cost thanks to the furthering of related technological advancements

+-keystroke queen-+

Interesting. Where are they using it, the U.S. or other countries?
As far as cost i was thinking more the hardware, servers etc. I love this stuff!

[Tre Lawrence]

It will be cool to see how the sector develops. Hopefully, BBRY doesn't allow itself to be usurped.

[gogogadgets]

It actually already has significant real world application, just not on a mass scale. There's still a lot of kinks to iron out in terms of taking what's being discovered about specific genes and genomic sequencing and translating it into personalized medical care in a doctor's office. And the cost of genomic sequencing itself has drastically been reduced, and continues to decrease in cost thanks to the furthering of related technological advancements

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The real genius of this is the way it can aggregate data from medical devices. That's how they're making these discoveries about the most effective treatments for various genetic profiles. This is the Internet of Things in action, and it's happening right now, not in the future. Very cool. Proud to be #TeamBlackBerry

[Than Tran1]

Interesting, but not very practical for the average health care provider. Showed it to my wife (a Doc) and she said interesting, but of no value to her.

Your wife is probably a GP. This is for specialists.

[Than Tran1]

I hope the plan is to keep it simple and easy. Collect all medical information,( past, present and future), that pertains to an individual and make it available to quickly be accessed anywhere in the world through a secure framework. Medical data mining.

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There's more than that. Your medical treatments, responses, etc can be de-identified and used as part of population study. Think of it as post approval expanded use study.

[Than Tran1]

Medical data must use the best security. Lots of laws for protection of patient data and identity. Hope the ultrasound imaging doesn't get hacked out to a public site. Image how that would go down!

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You are talking about HIPPA.

[Glenn Biddle]

Apparently there will be a story on Nanthealth tomorrow on 60 minutes. Sunday 6:00pm on CBS in case anyone is interested

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[Tornado99]

You are talking about HIPPA.

Yes. I work for a world leading BioPharma company and we have all kinds a processes and procedures in place when dealing with clinical data. This is always given utmost care. For example, we work with a group in Iceland that has an agreement with the people there to collect family health histories back 1000 years, and to sequence family members to identify genomic differences associated with health issues. This can only happen where there is high trust levels. This work is significantly helping determine
our research direction.

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[early2bed]

I still don't see how Blackberry has any technology that will give it any advantage in healthcare. If and when genomics becomes a big part of medical care, I'm pretty certain that we won't be manipulating the human genome on a mobile device. That would be like downloading the entire street view map of the world to have the app show you directions to the nearest Starbucks. If you have the gene for disease A then your doctor isn't going to download your entire genome and use his Passport to look for the gene - it will be in your record as "Susceptible to Disease A".

Bringing to a mobile device to discuss the future of genomic medicine is simply bizarre. The only reason I can think of to do so is for the media opportunity of showing it on a new device - you need something for them to take a picture of. The fact that the Nanthealth guy keeps holding up a Passport to discuss genomics makes me think this is mostly a dog and pony show for media and investors.

[BACK-2-BLACK]

Apparently there will be a story on Nanthealth tomorrow on 60 minutes. Sunday 6:00pm on CBS in case anyone is interested

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For more info, we have the following post:

http://forums.crackberry.com/showthread.php?t=978846


Definitely interesting to see what this BlackBerry investment into Nanthealth brings in the future!!

[TgeekB]

Well, what did everyone think of the 60 minutes episode?

[hpjrt]

It was a very impressive segment.

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[Than Tran1]

"I still don't see how Blackberry has any technology that will give it any advantage in healthcare. "

Genome and big data. Treatment responses, side effects, etc all will be collected and analyze for pattern. What will collect the data? Those little devices powered by QNX. All of those little devices will be managed by BES.

[Than Tran1]

Yes. I work for a world leading BioPharma company and we have all kinds a processes and procedures in place when dealing with clinical data. This is always given utmost care. For example, we work with a group in Iceland that has an agreement with the people there to collect family health histories back 1000 years, and to sequence family members to identify genomic differences associated with health issues. This can only happen where there is high trust levels. This work is significantly helping determine
our research direction.

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Yes and I work with Health Information for years coding mostly. Implement HIPAA compliant modules to make sure all those HIPAA requirements are met.

[early2bed]

The segment was well done. The interview was done by Sanjay Gupta who is a physician. They did give some time to an oncologist who was a skeptic and mentioned that some people consider Soon-Shiong to be too much of a promoter. They mentioned the partnership with Blackberry and showed a Passport but didn't mention it by name.

They did not shed any light onto why a Passport is such an integral part of the treatment process. The genome of a tumor is determined by a tissue sample. Then some big computers are used to establish some treatment targets. That info is made available to the end user in a browser. It seems that the most effective way to view this data would be web-based on any browser with the data coming from a cloud server.

[Glenn Biddle]

I don't think that they were actually saying that the Passport was an internal part of the cancer treatment, but that Nanthealth and BlackBerry were working together to build a device. What that device was they didn't go into any detail.

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