title: Personalized medicine: genetic component to providing quality care.
abstract: Personalized medicine--tailoring medical treatment not only to patients' individual characteristics, but also to their genetic profiles--is a new trend that is gaining attention in health care. It has the potential to manage diseases with a minimum of side effects and adverse reactions while, at the same time, cut unnecessary costs. Creating genetic profiles can determine if a patient has a predisposition to specific diseases and what treatments are likely to be most effective for a particular illness. Pharmacists can play a key role in personalized medicine by working with prescribers to take medication management to a new level of effectiveness and accuracy. Personalized medicine is in its infancy, and while studies are beginning to show its impact, it isn't likely to be used on a widespread basis until it becomes more affordable, available, and integrated in health care payment. However, as the health care system continues to evolve, providers and payers alike are expected to embrace personalized medicine. And even though technological innovations are slow to come to long-term care, personalized medicine is likely to become more widely used in this setting as the advantages become evident.
authors: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
authors: Joanne
authors: J
authors: Kaldy
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000379:methods*; D010595:Pharmacists; D010597:Pharmacogenetics; D057285:Precision Medicine