Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems:
2016 CIHDS Workshop Theme:
Precision Medicine and Precision Health:
Speeding Innovations in Healthcare Delivery
The 2016 CIHDS workshop will focus on the linkages between precision medicine and precision health, and especially how healthcare delivery can become more efficient as the driver of innovation.
These definitions provide some direction:
“Precision medicine is concerned with prevention and treatment strategies that take individual variability into account. The prospect of applying this concept broadly has been dramatically improved by the recent development of large-scale biologic databases, powerful methods for characterizing patients, and computational tools for analyzing large sets of data.”
“Precision health boils down to two key changes in practice: 1) Better determination of the unique aspects of each individual and their individual disease process; 2) Delivery of specific treatments and preventative measures tailored to these unique aspects. It provides opportunities to revolutionize care in all areas of clinical practice.”
The workshop will begin with a panel of investigators and thought leaders in this area:
- Chris DeFlitch, Emergency Medicine, CMIO
- Harriet Nembhard, Industrial Engineering
- Harleah Buck, College of Nursing
- Marc Williams, Geisinger Genomic Medicine Institute
- James Broach, Instiute for Personalized Medicine
We invite our colleagues to send 300-word abstracts that may address any of the following topics as they relate to the workshop theme:
- human genome
- disease discovery
- device creation and use
- clinical decision support
- big data/analytics
- cost effectiveness analysis
- ethics
- business development
- clinical decision support
- laboratory discovery
- privacy/security
- culture of health
- home care
- payment models
Given the new and developing work in this area, participants are not expected to have completed projects. We use the term “abstract” broadly to include any construction of your ideas, interests, literature review, project plans, and so forth. As in previous workshops, we will organize the day to capitalize on our combined knowledge and develop a way forward on collaborative research and education plans.
Please provide your abstract submission along with position and contact details to CIHDS@psu.edu by December 14, 2015.
You are invited to follow us on Twitter: @CIHDS and visit our website at www.CIHDS.psu.edu.
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