OME Care (formerly Pathway Genomics) is a privately held global precision medical diagnostic and home-care company with

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. Based in

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, California, the company offers both at-home genetic testing and Artificial Intelligence to consumers and physicians to support the treatment of a variety of health conditions. The test menu ranges from

pharmacogenomics Pharmacogenomics is the study of the role of the genome in drug response. Its name ('' pharmaco-'' + ''genomics'') reflects its combining of pharmacology and genomics. Pharmacogenomics analyzes how the genetic makeup of an individual affects the ...

testing for well-known drugs like Plavix,

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, to general health and wellness, testing which includes information on a number of health conditions including obesity management, skincare, and type 1 and type 2

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and

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. The company has also applied for an FDA EUA fast-track on a multiplex Covid-19 and influenza RT-PCR diagnostic test. OME care owns and operates a

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, accredited by the

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and

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History

The company was founded with the vision to make “home-care genetic testing and

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accessible and affordable to everyone.” OmeCare testing services cover a variety of conditions including obesity, cardiac health, inherited diseases,

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and

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response, as well as drug response. In addition to continual testing improvements and new testing developments, OME Care is also currently developing OME. OME is the “world’s only mobile healthcare consumer application with artificial intelligence to help provide consumers with personalized health and wellness information. As of January 2019, Pathway Genomics was acquired by OME Wellness and renamed OME Care.

IBM partnership

In 2014, IBM Watson Group announced its partnership with Pathway Genomics, to help “deliver the first-ever cognitive consumer-facing app based on genetics from a user’s personal makeup.” The

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, subsequently named OME, is the first of its kind to merge

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

and

deep learning Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. De ...

, powered by

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, with personal genetic information. It provides users with personalized health and wellness information based on the individual’s health history.

Executives

OmeCare’ executives include Michael Nova, M.D. (chief innovation officer and founder) and Michael H. Cox, CIPP (Privacy SoCal Privacy Consultants).[]. Retrieved May 16, 2016.

References

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History

IBM partnership

Executives

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