Why Precision Medicine Demands a Completely New Type of Database
HIT Consultant July 8, 2024
Precision medicine is revolutionizing healthcare – by optimizing the efficiency and therapeutic benefit for particular groups of patients, especially by using genetic or molecular profiling. This approach enables a range of health disciplines, including disease prediction, prevention and the resulting treatments, diagnostic screening for prenatal and newborns, and screening for rare diseases and cancer types. For life sciences, the ability to peer into high-resolution molecular profiles has opened up the way we hunt for new drugs and targets.
As exciting as these possibilities are, precision medicine relies on being able to handle and analyze vast amounts of complex data with a great degree of nimbleness and agility. With faster, more affordable technologies, organizations are generating hundreds of terabytes of genomic...