NC Biotechnology Center | September 5, 2019 Thomas Edison once famously remarked that “to invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” The sequencing of the human genome two decades ago provided the “pile of junk” from which medical researchers imagined a more personalized approach to medicine [...]
By Jaya Prasad, Contributor, Forbes | August 28, 2019 Wasteful spending constitutes an estimated 34% of U.S. healthcare, exceeding $1 trillion annually, and can be attributed to factors such as prevention failures, duplicate services, and over-treatment that could be eliminated without impacting patients. We are operating within a healthcare system [...]
The Medical Futurist | March 26, 2019 Who owns medical and genetic data? How to regulate gene editing? Where is the boundary of enhancing physical or cognitive human capabilities? What to do with biological differences widening the gap of the haves and have-nots? Could we define where is the boundary [...]
By Nathan Eddy, Healthcare IT News | February 27, 2019 Health and research entities to advance genome sequencing for disease diagnosis. A consortium of eight health care and research organizations in the U.S. and Canada, including the Mayo Clinic and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced the launch [...]
By Rahul Patel, Forbes | February 12, 2019 Precision health has become all the rage lately, as it holds ramifications that reach deep into the prospects for success for new models of health care, including pay for performance. So how can precision health benefit patients and the clinicians who care [...]
By Arundhati Parmar, MedCity News | January 10, 2018 The founding dean of the nation's first college of population health explains that precision medicine and population health are in reality synergistic concepts. Precision medicine is using knowledge about a person’s genetic code to tailor treatments to that individual for the [...]
