There are big companies investing in genomics as well, but as time progresses we could see a combination of efforts and some melt downs occur. Cerner healthcare just recently made the news by adding genomics capabilities to their lab software. Complete Genomics has a little different...
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on 11-18-2008
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The cost sometime next year though may go down with Complete Genomics and their upcoming offer of $5000.00 to sequence a complete individual DNA. There are some that don’t share the same interest in view of privacy issues, but in my small opinion, privacy is pretty much only existing in the shadows...
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on 10-19-2008
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As the article states, you don’t need marketing for cancer drugs, as the need is unfortunately already there, thus marketing for cancer drugs does not necessarily carry the same sales expense as do other drugs. We have all seen the “tiered plans” on what level drugs are listed with insurance coverage...
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on 10-13-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Other Items of Interest, My Commentaries, personalized medicine, Genomics, health insurance, Pharma, Prescriptions, Cancer, R and D, Science 2.0
Everyone is waiting to see what CMS decides to do. Recently in the UK in London there are plans to open clinics just for this purpose and after the initial clinic more are to follow, so how we handle it in the US, everyone is waiting to see. BD September 9, 2008 | Payers, physicians, and...