Healthcare IT News December 3, 2017
Precision medicine is no longer just a buzzword, so teams must prime their infrastructure, retool workflows, develop data governance and educate clinicians now.
How close are we to precision medicine being commonplace, widespread – perhaps even the standard of care? How near are we to an environment where genomic advances are routinely part of the equation when it comes to treating patients?
“The changes are happening so quickly,” said India Hook-Barnard, associate director of precision medicine at University of California San Francisco. “I think the world is going to be a very different place in five years.”
Suddenly we seem to be nearing a critical mass where precision medicine is no longer just a buzzword but is actually widely integrated...