Technology and the small medical practice: innovation streamlines workflows and optimizes patient care

A leading trend in cancer therapy over the past 20 years is our increasing ability to develop and deliver personalized therapy tailored to provide optimum safety and efficacy based on the unique needs of individual patients. Without a doubt, personalized cancer therapy requires a focus on the person – identifying aberrations in specific cells and biologic pathways that give rise to the cancer, considering other health issues or co-morbid conditions that may limit efficacy or lead to unwanted side effects, and understanding the person’s personal priorities and values. A parallel trend that enables individualized therapy is the increasing personalization of technology. Prior to the advent of smart phones and the development adaptive algorithms customizing processes to a person’s individual...