Personalizing precision medicine : a global voyage from vision to reality / Kristin Ciriello Pothier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pothier, Kristin Ciriello, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical innovations.

Medical informatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2017.

Summary:

The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide. • Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and will affect people worldwide • Reviews precision medicine around the world, including the US, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, Europe, and Latin America • Discusses a number of diseases areas - cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, infectious disease, pain, immunology, rare diseases • Includes information and quotes from over 100 interviews with key industry experts in biotech, pharma, informatics, diagnostics, health providers, advocacy groups, and more. • Includes stories illustrating current issues and future promises in precision medicine for a human touch

Contents:

The right drug, the right patient, the right time : foundations of precision medicine

Decision making machines : diagnostics in precision medicine

Precision medicine around the world : Europe

Our reality today : the patient journey in precision medicine

Toward the day we just call it "medicine" : access to precision medicine

Precision medicine around the world : Japan

Shifting rules : regulatory and reimbursement

Precision medicine around the world : Latin America

Patients as the poorest princesses : supportive care

Informatics under the hood : data in precision medicine

Precision medicine around the world : India

A personalized stomach : precision medicine beyond cancer

Consumer is king : consumer applications of precision medicine

Precision medicine around the world : the Middle East

Sci-fi potential : CRISPR as the next novel frontier in precision medicine

Precision medicine around the world : China

A new hope : the future of precision medicine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118792124

1118792122

9781118792179

1118792173

9781118792193

111879219X

OCLC:

1003264850