Health care analytics make use of patient data to inform treatment decisions and is increasingly moving front and center in personalized medicine. For example, the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative (see post of January 26, 2016) has rolled out a program to collect health data from one million volunteers to inform and guide future research. Consumers … Continue reading this entry
Tags: Big Data, Health Care Costs, Personalized Medicine
A recent study published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, “Barriers for Integrating Personalized Medicine into Clinical Practice: A Qualitative Analysis” investigated physicians’ perceptions about the future of personalized medicine and identified factors that would influence their decisions in using genetic testing in their practice. The study is an interesting read for any innovator … Continue reading this entry
Tags: Clinical Adoption of Personalized Medicine, Diagnostic Test, Genetic Testing, Health Care Costs, Personalized Medicine
Tags: Genetic Test, Genetic Testing, Health Care Costs, Personalized Medicine
The collection, analysis and sharing of digitized information between patients and medical providers is promising to revolutionize the doctor-patient relationship. This new paradigm is enabled through recent innovations in information technology (“IT”), i.e., software, hardware, wireless access and mobile communications, rather than by the delivery of traditional health care such as pharmacology and biotechnology. New information- and … Continue reading this entry
Tags: Health Care Costs, Health Care Delivery, Health Care IT, Personalized Medicine
On June 9, 2011, the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) hosted its Seventh Annual State of Personalized Medicine Luncheon in Washington, D.C. As stated on its website, PMC’s mission “is to build the foundation that underpins the advancement of personalized medicine as a viable solution to the challenges of efficacy, safety and cost.” This year’s luncheon … Continue reading this entry
Tags: Adrianna Jenkins, FDA, Forbes Magazine, Health Care Costs, Human Genome Project, John Castellani, Personalized Medicine, Personalized Medicine Coalition, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, PhRMA, PMC, Tufts CSDD Impact Report
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