Beyond the promise of precision medicine

Getting beyond the hype.

Cancer diagnosis has a long history of being patient-based.

Bioinformatics and genomics are developing faster than medicine can adapt to embrace it.

Cancer clinical trials are not a last resort for patients but are often first line therapy.

Next generation sequencing: now genomic sequencing makes every patient different. Healthcare needs to move to precise molecular oncology. This is really hard with many samples to review to develop approaches.

The challenge is to apy the data to create new insights.

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Mark Scrimshire
Health & Cloud Technology Consultant

Mark is available for challenging assignments at the intersection of Health and Technology using Big Data, Mobile and Cloud Technologies. If you need help to move, or create, your health applications in the cloud let’s talk.
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Disclosure:

I am currently HHS Entrepreneur-in-Residence working on an assignment to update BlueButton for Medicare Beneficiaries.

The views expressed on this blog are my own.

I am also a Patient Engagement Advisor, CTO and Co-Founder to Medyear.com. Medyear is a powerful free tool that helps you collect, organize and securely share health information, however you want. Manage your own health records today.

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