Be a Great Boss: The Hill Collection (4 Items)

Cultivating an Innovation Ecosystem

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Future Patient

Future Patient is a Calit2 initiative that brings together computer

scientists, clinical researchers, medical doctors, and patients to

investigate “how the big data we are gathering across medical

records, patient record symptoms, clinical measures and genomic

and microbiome data can be used to foster a more scientific under-

standing of health,” noted Jerry Sheehan, Calit2’s chief of staff. The

microbiome is the 10 trillion microbes that live and do crucial work

in every human gut. Little understood, the microbes’ crucial role in

human health has only recently been