Personalized medicine and informatics.

摘要

The last numbers of years have produced innovative changes in health care delivery and some changes in health care information systems. If collaborative care and shared decision-making between patients and health care providers is to become a reality, then we must harness the power of information technology to improve clinical care, increase patient satisfaction and reduce health care costs. This would also help to reduce medication errors (1). Personalized medicine refers to the application of cost-effective and individualized strategies for diagnosing, monitoring and treating diseases (2). It is not a pledge of the future; it is becoming the current state in diagnostics and therapeutics. Innovations based on genetic and molecular designs offer patients better care at lower cost because conditions are predicted sooner, diagnosed more accurately and treated more effectively (3).