The healthcare sector has gained its entry into the new era of genomics and precision medicine. There are numerous health IT vendors, who offer to help healthcare providers by providing the right data with the objective of utmost patient care.
Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment where genes, the environment and lifestyle of each person is taken into account.
The technology could enable researchers to test drugs or treatments on a patient’s cells to avoid harmful, ineffective and costly options while determining personalized regimens.
Precision Medicine in oncology, where genetic testing is used to determine the best drugs to treat cancer patients, is not always so precise when applied to some of the world's more diverse populations, according to a study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).
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