October 9, 2009
Healthcare Reform
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When President Obama took office he was faced with a financial crisis of unprecedented proportions. The President has identified that Healthcare reform is an essential component of our fiscal well being. Healthcare reform has emerged as a critical initiative of the new Presidency. Much of the healthcare reform debate is focused on how to provide access to a large population of uninsured Americans and how to pay to for the costs associated with such an increase. One of the ideas about containing healthcare costs is to provide only those treatments that are known to be effective for each patient. Although the phrase personalized medicine is not frequently used in the healthcare debate, I believe that implementation of personalized medicine could provide medical care that results in better outcomes for patients and at a lower cost. This is the premise of personalized medicine. I have always felt that making personalized medicine a reality requires bringing together all of the stakeholders and have them engage in intense discussions about the status of personalized medicine and the pathways for bringing personalized medicine to healthcare. This year we are celebrating the fifth anniversary of an annual meeting held on the campus of Harvard Medical School in Boston to accomplish this goal. I would like to encourage all who are interested in bringing better healthcare to the populations around the world to join us at this year’s exciting meeting.
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Posted by Raju Kucherlapati
on October 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM
in Healthcare Reform |
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