Several health systems and tech companies were named founding members of CancerX, a digital health project that is part of the Biden administration's "cancer moonshot" initiative to cure the disease.
CancerX launched in March as a partnership between Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center and the Digital Medicine Society. The founding members unveiled June 2 included:
Atrium Health (Charlotte, N.C.)
Amazon Web Services
Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center (Gilbert, Ariz.)
City of Hope (Duarte, Calif.)
Current Health (part of Best Buy Health)
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston)
Elevance Health (formerly Anthem)
Intel
Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City)
NorthShore Edward-Elmhurst Health (Evanston, Ill.)
Oracle
UC Davis Health (Sacramento, Calif.)
University of Chicago Medicine
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs