Why is making sure employees are complying with their medications so important? Not taking medicine prescribed by healthcare providers could lead to employee’s health conditions getting worse, hospitalizations, or even death. Learn how to play an active role in ensuring your employees are taking their...
GenXys Health Care Systems is proud to share that Sun Life selected TreatGx plus as part of its disability management toolkit for plan sponsors. According to Sun Life, the goal is to help plan members get back to work faster and live healthier lives....
Starting in October, UnitedHealth Group will cover PGx tests for patients with major depressive disorder or anxiety, who have experienced treatment failure at least once. Learn more about what this means for you as employers. ...
"The new US precision medicine initiative, including the All of Us program, has been made possible by improvement and price reduction in genome sequencing, as well as advances in multiple sectors of biotechnology. The initiative includes two components: a focus on cancer intended to spur...
The results of the Steroids in Eosinophil Negative Asthma (SIENA) trial emphasize the importance of a personalized approach to the treatment of asthma. For a given condition, there are likely many different subtypes of patients who may respond differently to different medications. In this case,...
It has come to our attention that pharmacogenetic tests for drugs used for the treatment of ADHD and analgesics have been removed by other pharmacogenetic platforms. We believe that these actions are appropriate given the low levels of evidence for many of these gene-drug associations....
Clinical outcome studies show cost savings and improved patient outcomes with pharmacogenetics in cardiovascular and mental health as well as in other areas including infectious disease, long term care, and adverse drug reactions Cardiovascular Antiplatelet post-MI Notarangelo et al 2018. PMID 29540324 Over 12 months, CV death/MI/stroke/major bleeding...
Finding the correct treatment may sometimes take years and adverse drug reactions may be inevitable, especially for people suffering from chronic conditions that require long term medication treatment plans. When dealing with these health issues, it is often hard for employees to be in the...
We are delighted to be included in the 2019 selections for the Digital Health Emerging Rockets. This list profiles technology companies that will lead market breakthroughs by providing tools and services to facilitate better health. GenXys is a precision prescribing software company tackling a $130 billion...
Great article in the Financial Post on big data and innovation, particularly in health technology. "Move over oil, Big Data is the new fuel to run the world Innovation Nation: With only a sliver of all data collected being analyzed, this West Coast supercluster aims to unlock that...