Harnessing next-generation informatics for personalizing medicine: a report from AMIAs 2014 Health Policy Invitational Meeting

This report summarizes the findings (n = 6) and recommendations (n = 15) from the policy meeting, which were clustered into 3 broad areas: (1) policies governing data access for research and personalization of care; (2) policy and research needs for evolving data interpretation and knowledge representation; and (3) policy and research needs to ensure data integrity and preservation. The meeting outcome underscored the need to address a number of important policy and technical considerations in order to realize the potential of personalized or precision medicine in actual clinical contexts.
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Perspective Source Type: research