MedGadget
“Noted journalist and author David Ewing Duncan kicked off the Wednesday session of FutureMed by discussing personalized medicine and his work on the Experimental Man Project.
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“The pHealth conference has emerged as the leading international meeting on wearable micro and nano technologies for personalized medicine. Starting in 2004, pHealth has attracted scientists for various technologies, medical doctors, policy makers from the healthcare industry, hospital administration and allied professionals.
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Elizabeth Weingarten, Slate
“Eric Topol wants to digitize you. No, he doesn’t want to transform your body into a pixelated hologram or morph your visage into a virtual avatar.
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Andrew Schorr, HealthWorks Collective
“This month I was honored to be the master of ceremonies at the Personalized Medicine World Conference in Silicon Valley, California. for the second time. About 850 scientists, venture capitalists and physicians attended and most all of them, have many more letters after their name for advanced degrees than I have!
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“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.
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David B. Agus, Wall Street Journal
“Take a moment to imagine what it would be like to live robustly to the ripe old age of 100 or more. You wouldn’t die of any particular illness, and you wouldn’t gradually waste away under the spell of some awful, enfeebling disease that began years or decades earlier.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“Computer maker Dell is counting on the cloud, analytics, and “big data” to power the future of medicine and make healthcare more personal. The Texas-based hardware giant is putting the infrastructure in place to support electronic health records (EHR) and genomics on the journey from episodic care to coordinated care to personalized medicine.
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Sharon Begley, Technology Review
“Nanosensors patrolling your bloodstream for the first sign of an imminent stroke or heart attack, releasing anticlotting or anti-inflammatory drugs to stop it in its tracks. Cell phones that display your vital signs and take ultrasound images of your heart or abdomen.
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Vivek Wadhwa, The Washington Post
“The Internet and social media are capturing the public’s attention, but some of the most significant advances today are happening in medicine. Technology and medicine are converging in new ways to make possible the types of innovations that could be seen on “Star Trek.” Consider this: We spend the majority of our health-care dollars on treating chronic diseases. Technological advances will enable us to shift those investments into improving our health and preventing disease.
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Katrina Megget, PharmaTimes
“Genetic profiling, infectious disease mapping, digital implants, and talking medicine cabinets – these are but some of the 20 future scenarios Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide has forecast in a new report.
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As IBM pairs its technology with biomedical research, the company announced Friday that it has successfully teamed with Coriell Institute for Medical Research to provide storage hardware and data management software that supports the research of human genetic diseases.
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Blobel B. Diagnostic Pathology, 6 Suppl 1
Starting with the paradigm change of health systems towards personalized health services, the paper introduces the technical paradigms to be met for enabling ubiquitous pHealth including ePathology. The system-theoretical, architecture-centric approach to mobile, pervasive and autonomous solutions has to be based on an open component system framework such as the Generic Component Model.
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Eric Barnes, AuntMinnieEurope.com
“Planning for the era of personalized medicine — a science and an art that combines genetics and patient histories with imaging and population-based atlases — is finally giving way to real treatment of real patients, according to a presentation on the first day of the Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting.
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Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times
“Researchers from Archimedes Inc., a San Francisco-based health care company, applied complex mathematical models to the electronic medical records of almost 3,000 hypertensive patients who had been followed for over a decade.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“For as long as I can remember, individualized therapy has been the Holy Grail of clinical medicine. But given the complexity of human disease, “The Impossible Dream” might be a more fitting metaphor.
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Katherine Rourke, EMR and EHR
“Today I read an interesting blog item making the case for including validated genomic test data into EMRs. The author argues that with the increasing relevance of genomic testing to treatment, it’s critical to offer clinicians access to such data.
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Hoffman MA, Williams MS. Human Genetics, 130(1)
If the dream of personalized medicine is to be realized, tremendous amounts of data specific to each individual must be captured, synthesized and presented to clinicians at the time this information is needed to make care decisions for the patient. This can only be accomplished through the use of sophisticated electronic medical record (EMR) systems that are designed to support this function.
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Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“A CIO involved in an ambitious personalized medicine project that uses genetic information describes how privacy issues are addressed.
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Sarah Kessler, Mashable
“The computer that defeated humanity’s finest Jeopardy players in February isn’t stopping at game show domination. Its creators have been busy retrofitting the computer to help doctors diagnose and treat patients.
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Turna Ray, Genomeweb
“The day after IBM’s Watson blew away Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter earlier this month, the technology giant announced its intent to apply the computer’s analytical power to providing healthcare solutions.
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