Inside the World of Precision Medicine: Delivering Care that Works the First Time

<p class="p1">This episode we talk about one of the hottest areas of research in the field of informatics: Precision Medicine.  Precision medicine is the culmination of years of work collecting health care data about every individual and putting it into a computable form in an electronic health record.  The holy grail of informatics was the idea that we could reuse these data to make sure that information unique to you was used to make diagnoses, prescribe medicines, and even tell you about your disease risks.   </p> <p class="p1">Josh Denny, MD, MS is a physician and fellow informaticist who has been a world leader in this movement for over 15 years. It’s a pleasure to have him on the podcast.  Josh has played a major role in the creation of  The AllofUs initiative at the National Institutes of Health. This is a big precision medicine initiative with the goal of collecting data for at least 1 million people in a secure and private way, but also in a way that supports researchers around the world who are doing precision medicine research. In fact, Josh is now CEO of the AllofUs Program, which, when you hear him talk about this topic, will come as no surprise to you. He’s low key, affable, funny, and really smart!</p> <p class="p1">We also welcome Brian Carlson, MHSA, who is Vice President for Patient Experience at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and an expert in patient-facing technologies. He knows his way around information technology and informatics as well, as you’ll soon discover. </p> <p class="p3"> </p> <p class="p4">Last but NEVER least, it was a pleasure to have Rischelle Jenkins sit in. Rischelle is the Graduate Program Manager in Biomedical Informatics.  Rischelle offered a practical perspective about precision medicine and helped us to break down this complex topic into much more understandable chunks.</p> <p>We didn’t have a songwriter for this episode,  unfortunately, but we have the next best thing:  a songwriter AFTER this episode. I asked a friend who you heard sing on our inaugural ep