Healthcare IT News January 24, 2022
Bill Siwicki

In the final installment in this feature series, six health IT leaders discuss where they’re investing for the future of genomics and personalized medicine – and forecast the new tools and trends they see on the horizon.

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person,” as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it.

For physicians and researchers this means predicting more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in particular groups of people.

This is completely different from the traditional one-size-fits-all approach, in which treatment and...

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