Health care for the future

摘要

In "From Human Genome Research to Personalized Health Care" (Issues, Summer 2009), Gilbert S. Omenn makes a compelling and comprehensive case for the advent of personalized health care and for its implications for research and policy development. The necessary research agenda must go further and faster to address the professional, social, and financial implications of this "disruptive technology" The objective is to address the final stage of translation and to minimize the adoption interlude.