Healthcare IT News September 30, 2021
The expanded dataset could enable researchers to gain insights about “long COVID,” says CEO of the landmark personalized medicine project.
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program announced this past week that it had made a significant increase in the COVID-19 information available in its precision medicine database.
The expanded COVID-19 survey dataset now includes responses from nearly 100,000 participants, which could allow researchers to glean new insights from the wide-ranging information.
This means the program’s researcher workbench now includes data from 329,000 people, 80% of whom represent communities underrepresented in medical research.
“It’s a really diverse community,” All of Us Chief Executive Officer Josh Denny told Healthcare IT News. “They’re very engaged, and...