Healthcare IT News April 17, 2018
Experts point to the need to demonstrate value, as well as challenges integrating genomic data into EHRs and handling massive amounts of data.
Research and innovation in personalized medicine are surging. However, adoption of personalized medicine technologies into clinical practice is comparatively slow.
There are a number of significant challenges to the integration of personalized medicine into healthcare practice. The Personalized Medicine Coalition is one organization that has been working to help identify and categorize challenges as well as identify strategies for providers to overcome these challenges.
“One major set of challenges involves recognizing and demonstrating the value that personalized medicine prevention and treatment strategies bring to healthcare,” said Daryl Pritchard, senior vice president, science policy, at the Personalized Medicine...