“In two decades, the health care encounter between patients and physicians will bear little resemblance to its contemporary counterpart. That’s the view of Dan Roden, M.D. First, the record will be entirely electronic. Moreover, the discussion of the patient’s symptoms of disease and treatment will include a personalized, genetic component. “The doctor will discuss the treatment and in the background, a search engine will be at work combing research databanks,” says Roden, assistant vice chancellor for personalized medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville. “The search engine will guide the appropriate dose of a medication, or inform the physician that a given drug is unlikely to work, given the genetic make-up of the person”.”
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Gary Baldwin, Health Data Management, 1 December 2008
