ASCO Linking E-Health Data To Promote Real-Time Personalized Cancer Care
Executive Summary
The American Society of Clinical Oncology takes the first big step toward a real-time learning network by aggregating data culled from electronic health records, to provide physicians, patients and others with up-to-the-minute evidence on how best to treat cancer.
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