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As U.S. Looks to Launch Precision Health Study, Google’s Role Emerges

Xconomy

In fact, tech companies shared the lowest marks along with government, which underlines one of the national study’s big question marks: how quickly will people sign up for an effort whose premise—the more volunteers, the deeper the insights into ever-more tailored medical treatments and preventive health—requires mass participation?

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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

Xconomy

The Obama administration’s push to sign up one million Americans for a long-term health study will start in New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Tucson, AZ, top health officials said today. And the NIH will work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to open the PMI to veterans.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.