Personalized medicine, better healthcare and what one presenter referred to as "real wisdom" will all require the collection and use of big data, speakers said at the conference.

ONC wants developers to visually enrich the personal medical record to make it more usable and meaningful to patients and their caregivers.

A research team at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center at Christiana Care Health System and the Center for Translational Cancer Research performs a key role in a prestigious National Institutes of Health research project grant of $2.5 million to continue groundbreaking work into the creation of artificial salivary glands.

Although Initiate Systems can access some information, neither the CIA nor the venture capital firm it backs is able to do so, Ontario's privacy commissioner says.