Syapse, Non-Profit Health Systems Form Cancer Data-Sharing Consortium

Jun 02, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Syapse, Intermountain Healthcare, Stanford Cancer Institute, and Providence Health & Services announced today that they have established a consortium to advance cancer precision medicine by accelerating data sharing between clinics and health systems.

Called the Oncology Precision Network (OPN), the initiative aims to link and share aggregated clinical, molecular, and treatment data between its members using Syapse technology, enabling cancer patients not treated by major cancer centers to benefit from high volume-based analytics.

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