Israel-based software company Medial EarlySign will work with Geisinger's innovation center to develop technologies to predict lower GI and other "high-burden" diseases.
The firm has developed a digital platform that determines whether patients meet guidelines for genetic testing, and if so, what test they should receive.
At the AGBT meeting last night, Johns Hopkins researcher Joshua Cohen said that the partners are looking to recruit 50,000 healthy individuals for the study.
Patients can perform urinalysis at home using Healthy.io's smartphone-based kit, which immediately sends the data to a database for clinical interpretation.
