He reckons testing will lead to individuals receiving a health score akin to today's personal credit score.
Perhaps the most intriguing idea discussed at demo day was advanced by Clinicast, an analytics company that aspires to develop an industry-standard health risk score, analogous to the FICO credit score.
Compared to those with a score of 0 ideal health metrics, participants with a score of 3 had a 25 percent lower occurrence of cancer, and participants with a score of 6-7 had a 51 percent lower cancer risk.
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Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, which had a Rami score of 116, said it had a backlog of 40, 000 patient episodes which have not yet been coded.
Credit conscious consumers should take care to check their free credit score to monitor their credit health, and keep their monthly balances under the recommended 30% of their total credit limits to keep spending in check.
The Democrats, meanwhile, continue to score higher on issues such as health and, critically, the economy.
Missing several payments on any health-care card can ding your credit score.
When smoking was removed from the score, those with 3 ideal health metrics (out of a possible 6) had a 2% lower risk, and those with 5-6 ideal health metrics had a 25% lower risk.
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And shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley accused Mr Burnham of trying to score political points with voters ahead of the election.
Is it still the hope to get the financial stuff in the health care bill over to Congressional Budget Office today so they can score it?
In 2008 Charles Limb at Johns Hopkins University and Alan Braun at the National Institutes of Health reported how they got jazz musicians to either play from a memorized score or improvise, and looked at their brains.
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Here's one last score for retailers you might not have thought about: the affordability of health insurance.
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