Research Assement #2
Date: September 11, 2020
Subject: A Closer look at Precision Medicine
Citation:Ginsburg, Geoffrey S, and Kathryn A Phillips. "Precision Medicine: From Science To Value." Health Affairs (Project Hope), U.S. National Library of Medicine, May 2018, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5989714/.
Assessment:
As medical advances in the oncology field occur, precision medicine becomes the way of the future. Nonetheless, a plan of government-funded precision medicine research in 2015 by president Barack Obama allows for more than ten years of sequencing, electronic medical records, which will pave the way for a scientific agenda of new understandings of Disease, Biology, and Pathogenic. Not only does this National Research Agenda allow for scientists to see genetics over a diverse range of the population, but it's also long-lasting research that will allow for the implication of precision medicine to fit each person's need in the foreseeable future. Overall this will allow scientists to screen for and detect problems at their earliest stages which will minimize risk for the patient overall. Additionally, this approach will allow for the selection of the most benefiting medicine from the patient's genetic makeup. Nonetheless, this will allow researchers to link samples from phenotypes, family history, and environmental exposure to provide the best clinical care. This government sponsorship of this research will allow for new advances in precision medicine regulations and research.
To optimize patient care the inclusion of genomic data in knowledge-generating health care systems is needed to harness the full informational potential. Although it is still important to keep patient privacy and give the patients the option of sharing their genomic information with researchers. The convergence of precision medicine, data science, and digital health emerges as a large-scale collection of biological, radiologist, and translation informatics emerges in a digital and informational database. This analytical application will help scientists, analysts, and researchers to see the patterns of a particular infection, disease as it relates to genetics and environmental factors. Furthermore, this will create a more efficient and sustainable model of care using data and technology. Overall this will create a high-quality healthcare system that will tailor to each patient's unique makeup. Although This is not currently accessible to the EMR (Electronic Health Record), the accessibility and collection of this in a consistent, standardized, and comparable way will pave the way into the future of clinical care. This support of a complete learning style is evermore needed because the analysis of data to produce results will help to improve clinical practices. The future of precision medicine is a shift in healthcare that is rapidly advancing and there to stay as a result in the rapid advancement and availability in genomic testing. Although things such as evidence generation, improvements, and regulations in data sharing and infrastructure, the incorporation of genomic and molecular data into clinical care and research will come as precision medicine leads a pathway into understanding each patient's genetic makeup and the specific needs that arise as a result. Although problems such as the rapid evolvement of a "golden standard" will make mass collection difficult. As we make away into a future of "paperless healthcare systems" improvements in the integration of data will need to occur. A key topic that would be the evolution of the regulatory landscape for precision medicine testing. Over precision medicine cannot only impact single patience care but with more electronic database availability has the ability to impact an entire population. Not only could oncologists get a better grasp of treatment, they could apply database knowledge to minimize the problem in the first place. The first step; the centralization of data, into a usable and accessible database.