Pharmacy Times April 30, 2021
Health care practitioners and manufacturers must change practice patterns and management strategies.
A growing understanding genomics and of how genetics drives health, disease, and drug responses in each patient is enabling better disease prevention strategies, more accurate diagnoses, safer drug prescriptions, and more effective treatments. Personalized medicine (PM) tailors care to each patient’s unique genetic makeup, which can improve outcomes and lower costs.
For device and drug manufacturers, PM provides an opportunity to develop agents targeted for specific patient groups that don’t respond to medications.1 But effective PM requires changes in practice patterns and management strategies for health care practitioners and for manufacturers in reimbursement, regulatory practices, and knowledge sharing. What’s more, they must overcome barriers to implementation to effectively...