Healthcare IT News May 12, 2020
In this special report, seven experts in personalized medicine – from Accenture, CereCore, Chilmark Research, Deloitte and Orion Health – offer best practices for optimizing technology to help health systems advance innovation.
The healthcare provider organization is a crucial participant in a fast-evolving ecosystem around precision medicine, which includes pharma and biotech companies, medical device manufacturers, national research organizations, academic medical centers, patient advocacy groups, and others.
According to the Precision Medicine Initiative, precision medicine is “an approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyles.”
Precision medicine and personalized medicine often are used interchangeably, but have slightly different connotations – with the former focused more on the clinical realm of genomics...