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In a time when research funding from the Federal Government is either leveling off or decreasing, the announcment by Secretary Leavitt that personalized medicine, which focuses on using new genomic and other "omic" approaches to assure that each patient gets the best treatment the first time, evey time, is a phenomenal announcement.
“Personalized health care will combine the basic scientific breakthroughs of the human genome with computer-age ability to exchange and manage data that will give us the ability to deliver the right treatment to the right patient at the right time – every time,� Leavitt said in a statement.
The Secretary also defined the main goals of the initiative:
HHS said the initiative has three main goals: to review structures for “ensuring that genetic tests are accurate, valid, and useful� by seeing to it that HHS departments know their assignments in this area; by developing “consistent policies� to guide HHS agencies in managing “access to and security of federally supported research�; and by creating a “network of networks� that pulls together health care information from “the nations major health data repositories� to “enable researchers to match treatments and outcomes.�
For more information on the US Department of Health and Human Services Personalized Medicine Initiative, check out their website.
The information on this report was taken from a story published on March 23, 2007 in GenomeWeb Daily News.