Millions of Canadians affected by Health Canada’s recall of valsartan are being asked to contact their pharmacist as soon as possible to make a drug substitution. Health Canada announced that numerous varieties of valsartan, a generic drug sold by several companies in Canada, may be contaminated...
Surgeon, public health researcher, and author Atul Gawande is the new CEO of the health enterprise by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan. Gawande hopes to lower healthcare costs without raising risk, by helping professionals "make it simpler to do the right thing". According to Gawande,...
Genetic clues in your mouth can predict if your next prescription will work using the right collection method and precision prescribing software. Your mouth harbors genetic clues about whether your medication will work and can rule out the possibility of an adverse drug reaction. Today, there...
Imagine a passenger plane crashing once a day in the country, killing hundreds of people every day. That is the scope of the problem with adverse drug reactions, the 4th leading cause of death in the USA. A solution is now available with precision prescribing...
“Precision prescribing is a reality and it is a reality today. The degree of precision relies on accounting for the complex interplay of multiple variables including pharmacogenetics” – GenXys CEO – Karl Pringle We are excited to announce that Karl Pringle joined GenXys as the new...
Personalized treatments for chronic conditions have the potential to transform the way we prevent and treat disease by tailoring prescriptions to each person's unique genetic makeup and health information. The mainstream approach to chronic condition management assumes that all patients are similar but treatments are usually...
Emerging digital health technologies offer doctors a deep view inside patients’ health and can speed diagnosis as well as treatment. As technology becomes more fundamental to healthcare, early detection, screening and personalized treatment technologies will lead to preventive healthcare and improvements in the health system. Nonetheless,...
Last week, the annual #BCTech Summit returned to Vancouver breaking attendance records drawing in more than 9,000 participants to nearly a dozen conference events with over 270 exhibitors and more than 200 speakers. The two-day conference brought together the brightest minds who highlighted the technologies...
We have reached over 250 users in our medication decision support tool, TreatGx! Here is one of our patient stories using personalized medication options with TreatGx. “Using TreatGxPlus was an amazing experience for me and I have seen a tremendous improvement in my health. The...
Closing the Evidence Gap Doctors, pharmacists, naturopaths, nurses, and other health professionals are able to write prescriptions within a regulatory framework identified by their professional organizations. All these bodies have remarkably similar approaches to prescribing as one might expect. They are based on recommendations set out...