Genentech oncology collaboration with GNS featured in TechEmergence

October 11, 2017 by Jon Walker Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, this summer announced their own collaboration with Cambridge, MA-based GNS Healthcare. GNS Healthcare’s mission statement is to use the latest innovations in machine learning to turn biomedical data into solutions and treatments. This collaboration’s first focus will also be on oncology, just like the IBM/Pfizer deal. Genentech […]

Gov. Charlie Baker Appoints GNS Healthcare CEO Colin Hill to Newly Formed Massachusetts Digital Health Council

Hill Joins Group of State’s Leading Experts to Promote, Accelerate Digital Health Innovation in Massachusetts BOSTON, Mass. – November 22, 2016 – Today Colin Hill, the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of leading precision medicine company GNS Healthcare (GNS), was appointed by Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to the newly formed Massachusetts Digital Health Council. The Council, […]

An Evening With Top Medical Innovators

Today’s visionaries battle cancer with cutting-edge science and the stubborness to make it work Surviving cancer requires teamwork. On the evening of Monday December 8, 2014, a small army of some of the best “soldiers” in the battle against blood cancer mingled with patients and members of the press in “The Swamp” at the California […]

Cognitive technologies: The real opportunities for business

Aetna and GNS Healthcare collaboration exemplifies how cognitive technologies can create knowledge from massive amounts of data Computers cannot think. But increasingly, they can do things only humans were able to do. It is now possible to automate tasks that require human perceptual skills, such as recognizing handwriting or identifying faces, and those that require […]

Health Care of the Future: Big brains buoy big ideas for big data

Joe Gray, one of Oregon Health & Science University’s star cancer researchers, put it best. There’s so much data out there, sometimes it’s like “getting hit with a fire hose.” “We have to do a better job of taking the data and distilling it into information,” said Gray, who is associate director for translational research […]