Healthcare IT News December 29, 2017
Health systems, researchers, startups, app developers and EHR makers are all taking critical roles in growing the promise of precision medicine.
The past year highlighted the many aspects of precision medicine, showed that there are more emerging, and recognized oft-mentioned obstacles, such as high costs as well as clinical, financial, technological and cultural concerns.
Major health systems like Geisinger and the Cleveland Clinic broadened their precision medicine work — and that bodes well for what might be underway for 2018.
Here’s a look back at some of the most promising developments in precision medicine in 2017.
Precision medicine steps out of the lab and into the EHR
Progress in genomic sequencing has led to some exciting breakthroughs in clinical therapies....