“The teaser at the top of a recent Wall Street Journal article proclaimed, “What does the future of medicine hold? Tiny health monitors, tailored therapies–and the end of illness.” Whoa! IT-enhanced personalized medical therapy holds great promise, but we won’t be eliminating disease from the face of the earth any time soon. Nature is much too smart to let that happen.
And let’s face it, it’s nature we’re battling: Microbes are crafty little devils that continue to find ways to resist the effects of antibiotics, and genetic mutations continue to put us in harm’s way.”
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek, 19 January 2012
