Health Analytics, Precision Medicine and the Patient

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(under Healthcare Analytics Series)

Instructor - Susan Anderson, Managing Director, Orion Health

Precision medicine is an emerging field in which treatments are tailored to an individual’s genes, environment and lifestyle, and is on the cutting edge of cancer treatment. U.S. President Obama launched the Precision Medicine Initiative with a $215 million investment in the President’s 2016 Budget. The Precision Medicine Initiative will pioneer a new model of patient-powered research that promises to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients.

While some patients have benefitted from what researchers have figured out so far, precision medicine isn’t nearly as widespread—or precise—as proponents want it to be. To bring this field to its full potential, we will need to figure out how to best tailor treatments to suit every patient’s biological differences. And the more we learn, the more difficult that seems.

This webinar will examine the current state of precision medicine, Canada’s readiness to enable precision medicine, the technical and infrastructure requirements for precision medicine, the strategic steps needed in Canada both in the short and long term, and examples of precision medicine in practice.

Expected Outcomes

• Identify gaps, and plan for future analytics requirements in support of Precision Medicine.
• Understand required analytics capacity to be applied at the front lines of healthcare delivery that takes advantage of Precision Medicine translational research.
• Identify the key components for a comprehensive analytics strategy framework that enables Precision Medicine in Canadian context.

Intended Audience

• Healthcare leaders (CEOs, COO, CIO)
• Healthcare managers and directors
• Data and decision analysts
• Health delivery practitioners & professionals
• Health professionals interested in learning about Precision Medicine

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