Personalized Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era October 20, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Genome, Personalized medicine, Web 2.0.trackback
A few weeks ago, Daniel Vorhaus from the Genomics Law Report asked me to provide a commentary on what I think about the future of personalized medicine regarding ethical, legal and social aspects. Now my commentary was published and here is an excerpt:
Educating medical professionals and preparing the public to be able to provide informed consent for these activities is crucial to this next phase; as is the accessibility of the enormous and growing amount of genomic data. A new generation of web services, the so-called web 2.0, seems to be playing an important role in this movement. Through such tools, people can interact with their doctors and each other easily and they can share the results of genomic tests, resulting in a self-maintained database of human genomic information. Examples include the research project of 23andMe.com or the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research of Patientslikeme.com.
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[...] social experts who talked about the possible implications in genomics. My commentary focused on the web 2.0 aspect of personalized medicine. Now the series is over and they published an e-book which is a must-read for everyone who wants to [...]
[...] social experts who talked about the possible implications in genomics. My commentary focused on the web 2.0 aspect of personalized medicine. Now the series is over and they published an e-book which is a must-read for everyone who wants to [...]