Personalized Medicine will create many answers and solutions in healthcare, but will we have the money to afford it? I post quite a bit about genomics and personalized medicine on the blog here and the one thing it has in common with the rest of healthcare is cost. The success of personalized...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 11-14-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, personalized medicine, healthcare, Medical Records, FDA, integration, CMS, Leavitt
This clinic is going to begin using the genomic testing for Warfarin and I might guess as more testing becomes available the plans to expand testing will continue. The link above will offer some additional information as to how personalized medicine is working it's way into healthcare today...
Recently the FDA announced it was going to use the Medicare data base in the effort to mine and help find adverse drug side effects as well as other pertinent data relative to the approval and warning process in place at the FDA. This is more than likely related to the latest technology updates...
This is a big even in the move towards personalized medicine. This test will allow the physician to determine if the use of Herceptin is the right treatment for the patient with breast cancer! If it is determined not to work, then the patient is spared the expense and use of the drug, and...
The recent turn of events has literally put the FDA on somewhat of a hot seat... for an agency that minimally invested in technology, compared to other government entities, it is finding itself in a position of having to play "catch up" in a hurry...as evidenced with the recent turn of events...