HIMSS May 30, 2019

No matter your age, gender or race, there’s at least two things that each individual has in common.

  • We all have DNA.
  • We each have a unique genomic makeup that we share with no other else.

For years, researchers and scientists have searched for different ways to turn genomic data into information that can give a glimpse into a patient’s health story through precision medicine.

Precision medicine, as defined by the National Institutes of Health, is “an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.”

“While precision medicine is commonly referred to as personalized medicine, I think of the two terms differently,” said Matty Francis,...

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