PRECISION MEDICINE SUMMIT: A HIMSS EVENT
BOSTON, MA - JUNE 12 - 13, 2017
Breakfast will be served in the ballroom so make sure to stop by the sponsor tables.
Based on Bryce Olson’s advanced cancer prognosis, he should not be alive today. But he fought cancer differently. He used the data from genomic sequencing to break into a perfect-fit targeted drug trial that shut his cancer down for two years. Bryce has a unique perspective as both patient and technology strategist on the leading edge of genomics and precision medicine. Learn why 2017 will be the year patients start demanding precision medicine and how new solutions emerging from Intel and others will unleash a new era of biomedical insights and clinical genomics at the point of care.
Despite amazing technological breakthroughs for precision medicine, government champions, and continuing and significant investment, challenges exist related to appropriate regulatory guidelines, suitable reimbursement, and the education of healthcare professionals.
In this kick-off leadership panel, our experts discuss the current state of precision medicine and how to overcome these challenges. Additionally, they’ll address how to realistically:
Take this opportunity to mingle with your peers in a relaxed setting to build relationships and establish future partnerships. Coffee will be served in the ballroom area so make sure to stop by our sponsor tables.
Genomics is a well established field in medicine that has existed for more than 50 years. Now we face the prospect of moving the knowledge and practice of this field into everyday patient care for practitioners of every specialty. This comes with many challenges. Genomic medicine as it exists is somewhat inefficient and is not scalable. There are educational, technical, financial, and legal barriers to expanding this field across medicine. Dr Walton discusses the challenges of scaling genomic medicine and the hope and promise it holds based on patients we are treating today.
The central promise of precision medicine is the identification of predictors of disease and wellness that can guide interventions. How to apply precision medicine data and techniques in the medical discipline most focused on prevention, primary care, is largely unknown. The delivery of such care, which Stanford is calling “Precision Health”, in a way that is most valued by patients and clinicians alike requires study.
Stanford Health Care has embarked on a practice redesign process to develop a team-based model of primary care. EMR based patient, population, and operations dashboards were created to support analytics capacity for proactive and personalized point of care and population health management in the primary care space. We are piloting this new model of care along with genetics counseling, genomic sequencing and pharmacogenomics testing services among a cohort new Stanford Primary Care patients to better understand and describe best practices, opportunities, and patient archetypes as part of the clinical application of Precision Health in the general primary care population.
In this talk, we will present our methodology, planning and early findings of the implementation of precision medicine in a primary care setting.
Take this opportunity to mingle with your peers in a relaxed setting to build relationships and establish future partnerships.
The obstacles to personalized medicine include the high cost of precision cancer drugs, the challenge of getting patients fully engaged in their own care, a lack of mature, universal interoperability, and questions about the effectiveness of precision medicine interventions. This presentation will address these issues, concluding with a case report about Kathy Halamka, who was successfully treated for breast cancer with the help of several digital tools, include SHRINE, i2b2, and Clinical Query 2.
Takeaways
Penn Medicine, a $4.3 billion health care provider organization consisting of more than 2,000 physicians, is a leader in the rapidly developing field of precision medicine and was one of the first healthcare institutions in the United States to create a senior executive position to drive the development of targeted, individualized therapies.
Advances in genomics hold promise for delivering clinical care that will be personalized to the needs of individual patients. But as healthcare IT professionals begin planning investments that will allow them to be ready for this new chapter, many questions are emerging.
In this session, Brian Wells, associate vice president of health technology and academic computing, will outline the strategic decisions that will be required to enable clinicians and researchers to uncover the genetic underpinnings of disease, mine unstructured data and provide real-time decision support.
Take this opportunity to mingle with your peers in a relaxed setting to build relationships and establish future partnerships. Coffee will be served in the ballroom so make sure to stop by our sponsor tables.
This presentation explores the coming essential role of precision medicine in healthcare and the road to personalized medicine. Hook-Barnard will discuss opportunities for integration and application of data from across the spectrum of health (e.g. social, environmental, molecular factors) to inform prediction of individual risk, guide tailored prevention strategies and improve early screening and diagnostics. She will discuss how applying precision medicine across healthcare is not only good medicine but also good science.
There are many legal barriers facing providers and researchers in precision medicine initiatives: 1) how to navigate research and privacy protections to use the data gathered; 2) how to provide affordable testing for patients without running afoul of fraud and abuse laws; 3) how to use results responsibly as the data evolves and 4) discrimination. This presentation covers the legal issues surrounding these four areas, with advice on how to avoid any missteps.
The discovery of genome-editing enzymes such as CRISPR-Cas9 has resulted in a frenzy of efforts to develop new therapeutics to address genetic disease. The ability to make deliberate modifications to a patient’s genome holds extraordinary potential, but when and how will genetic surgery become widely accessible?
Ross Wilson is currently developing new technologies to help move genome editing from the lab to the clinic. In this session, he will provide a forecast of how CRISPR-based genome editing will take root as a powerful form of precision medicine. As opposed to ZFN and TALEN technology, CRISPR enzymes can easily be programmed with to match a patient’s specific genetic needs. It is likely that genome editing therapy will routinely be accompanied by sequencing to inform design of a personalized therapeutic. As more animal studies and clinical trials are initiated over the next decade, we will begin to learn the true capabilities of genome editing, as well as the precautions needed to ensure safe therapies.
After a day of informative and incisive presentations, enjoy a drink and hors d'oeuvres in the ballroom with your fellow attendees, speakers and sponsors.