Geisinger Health System

The firm said the clearance authorizes use of its smartphone-based albumin-to-creatinine ratio test by healthcare professionals at the point of care.

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.

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.

The firm said that it anticipates using the funds to scale operations in the US and to continue rolling out its service in the UK.

Over several months, members of the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis identified initial obstacles they believe impede diagnostic accuracy.

The knowledgebase will facilitate the documenting of evidence and implementation of diagnostics-driven population health projects.