2010 Medical Automation Conference, December 3, 2010

Patient Discovery-The Key to Reinventing Healthcare

Conference Overview

Diseases, as Hippocrates knew, are intellectual artifacts-generalizations about symptoms-that medicine has relied upon for centuries to assess sick people. But it is the sick individual that exits in nature, not the artifactual disease, and no two people are sick in exactly the same way. Molecular medicine has developed new tools for diagnosing individual conditions opening the way for personalized therapeutics. In a larger sense, though, personalized medicine implies that every patient is a clinical trial, and that the scope of illness extends to the patient’s social and economic individuality. Getting the diagnosis right in the first place, however, radiates throughout the continuum of care until the dis-ease reverts to ease. This is the meaning of patient discovery.

Topics

• Personalized medicine - the future
• Sequencing your human genome - why it matters
• A real world experience with personalized medicine -”Little Science”
• Proteomics role in detecting disease
• Future innovations in wireless devices
• Advanced Information systems
• The new medical home

Target Audience

Healthcare professionals in all fields and specialties who are interested in cutting-edge advances in healthcare delivery and treatment.