Will Precision Medicine Cure Physician Burnout?
Patients are not bell curves. And medical diagnosis and therapy should not be a game of trial-and-error. Every practicing physician knows that ever single day we see patients who just don't fit into neatly stratified categories. The uniqueness of each patient is the quintessential component of real medical practice. With proper design, precision-medicine technologies can return medicine to our core mission of focusing on the patient at the individual level, even as we design models of care to achieve population health goals. I explore the precision medicine business model in detail in today's GPJ (Group Practice Journal) a publication of the AMGA. Let's move health care business models back to the unique patients we care for: Riding the Third Wave.
Third Wave, interesting construct of data manipulation. To store every patients DNA “genome” would take massive server farms and become to costly to any organization. If your groups of medical professionals could narrow the complexities of DNA to one specific base strand, then other like abnormalities could be grouped together until a unique variation provides you with the best tailored patient care. This could reduce costs of data storage & algorithms by 60 percentile.
Frontline Cashier & Substitute Teacher
5 年Interesting article. I think the first two waves are accurate. However, I still have the feeling that the health care industry would do well to incorporate the value-based health care model. I believe the precision medicine concept should follow the value based system. (Like come after in a further point in time).?
Executive Director of Sherborn Consulting Group
5 年Excellent, Grace . . . love your model of moving from symptom-based medicine to algorithm-based.