White House’s $215M precision medicine initiative ushers in new era in healthcare

Laura Pedulli | | Health Exec | Policy & Regulations

The White House announced that it is pumping $215 million into federal health and science agencies so they can develop infrastructure that allows data to flow between medical clinics to labs that sequence the human genome and gather other data, reports Politico.

The Precision Medicine Initiative, first mentioned in President Obama’s State of the Union Address, ultimately seeks to find more targeted personalized approaches to treatments and cures, according to the story.

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Obama’s ‘precision medicine’ initiative could bring insight into disease

Laura Pedulli

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