PMI

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The PMI (Precision Medicine Initiative) is an initiative funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) : NIH PMI, announced in early 2015 by President Barack Obama. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH and a key player in her human genome project, and others, have had a vision of precision medicine for at least a few years, but the technology (both informatics and genomic testing) have finally reached a point where such medicine is feasible for many patients, with funding of course.

Definitions

  • precision or personalized medicine: although these terms are often used interchangeably, in this initiative they are referring to delivering tailored care to each patient using data specific to each patient. Genetics is the most common type of data used for this purpose, although other types of data such as where a patient lives (environmental expsosures) could certainly also be used to deliver more precise medical care.
  • phenotype and genotype:
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • etc.

Informatics needs

  • return of results
  • CDS
  • eHealth
  • Research

Potential impact

  • on clinical care
  • on research

See also

other related pages on this wiki that do not fit elsewhere on this page

References

articles and books

External links

OHSU Precision Medicine plans within the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute


Submitted by Jennifer Allen Pacheco