Personalized Medicine
Only a decade ago, there was very little discussion on the subject of Gender Medicine. In 2001 and 2010, the Institute of Medicine in the U.S. declared that being a woman or a man significantly influenced the course of disease and should be considered in prevention, diagnosis, and therapy. Today, we have moved on beyond simply segmenting individuals as male or female. What was first Gender Medicine has evolved into what is today, the area known as Personalized Medicine.
Personalized medicine is the use of diagnostic and screening methods to better manage the individual patient’s disease or predisposition toward a disease.
Personalized medicine will enable risk assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and therapy specifically tailored to the unique characteristics of the individual, thus enhancing the quality of life, wellbeing, and public health.
It is becoming easier to move, compare, apply and reproduce knowledge, data and samples. The basic infrastructure required to support a continuously learning health-care system has started to evolve spontaneously in many different areas. Furthermore, a cultural change is emerging as researchers, clinicians and patients embrace the open sharing of data to facilitate scientific advancement. Although it is unclear how long it will take to build an infrastructure that fully supports the widespread sharing and effective use of genomic and health data, the ultimate result will be a transformation of health care that allows continuous advances in medicine to occur.
The foundation will seek to promote systemic advances across health care systems so that going forward the way can be cleared towards for the onset of precision medicine.