In this special report, seven experts in personalized medicine – from Accenture, CereCore, Chilmark Research, Deloitte and Orion Health – offer best practices for optimizing technology to help health systems advance innovation.
SUMMARY
The healthcare provider organization is a crucial participant in a fast-evolving ecosystem around precision medicine, which includes pharma and biotech companies, medical device manufacturers, national research organizations, academic medical centers, patient advocacy groups, and others.
According to the Precision Medicine Initiative, precision medicine is “an approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyles.”
Precision medicine and personalized medicine often are used interchangeably, but have slightly different connotations – with the former focused more on the clinical realm of genomics and the latter taking a more expansive view of social and behavioral health.
Both hold huge potential for better health outcomes – but also require complex and challenging technology deployments, changes to clinical workflow, and education for physicians and patients alike.
“It is important that the provider CIO help to lead their organization into this new world by considering how existing technologies can be optimized and how new, disruptive technologies can be anticipated over multiple years of capital budget investments,” said Dan Kinsella, managing director, healthcare and life science, at consulting giant Deloitte.
“Of paramount importance to the typical provider CIO is how to operationalize precision medicine at the point of care. There is not a one-size-fits-all solution for healthcare providers, but there are leading practices to consider whether you are an academic medical center, an integrated delivery network or a community hospital.”
In this special report, seven precision medicine technology experts – from Accenture, CereCore, Chilmark Research, Deloitte and Orion Health – offer healthcare provider organization CIOs and other health IT leaders best practices for optimizing this technology.