Healthcare In Estonia: Where Grandmas Go For Genetic Data
Imagine a country where citizens will have their genetic profiles integrated into the digital health system with individual risk scores and pharmacogenomic information, so when they go to the doctor, they will get fully personalized, genetic risk-based diagnosis, medication, and preventive measures. That’s where healthcare in Estonia will arrive soon. They started to build their digital health system 20 years ago, and within the next years, the Baltic country will start to reap the benefits of a transparent, blockchain-based, digital health system hooked on genetic data. The first fully digitized republic certainly sets the direction for other countries to follow. Pay attention, deep dive alert!
The common denominator of President, youngsters, and
grandmas? Genetic testing
“Twenty percent of Estonians will have used
our DNA analysis service by the end of this year and know which diseases they
are susceptible to and how they can take appropriate precautions. I have an
increased risk of Type 2 diabetes, as I know from my analysis. So I will avoid
being overweight”, said Estonian
President Kersti Kaljulaid in a recent
interview
given to the German Spiegel magazine. That’s not political
campaigning, but the Estonian digital health system in action, urging any
citizen of the small Baltic country over 18 no matter how old to have their genetic
data analyzed.
Why would an elderly person care
about the latest “young people’s craze”, this time parading as the ke...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy analysis digital digital democracy digital health digital health strategy digital health system digital healthcare Estonia genetics genomics personalized Personalized medicine pharmacogenomi Source Type: blogs
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