Rock Weekly: Why digital health should care about genomics

Cancer fighters celebrated a huge week across the US, coinciding with the Cancer Moonshot summit. VP Biden announced a slew of public-private partnerships and threatened to cut funding for researchers who don’t report clinical trial data (one of many data issues)—and NCI launched the Genomic Data Commons, a public database and analysis platform for cancer genomics.

Speaking of—genomics is at a critical tipping point in healthcare, which is why we will release a report on the topic later this month. In the meantime, here's why digital health should be excited about genomics.

Headlines

Why Digital Health Should Care About Genomics
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