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Could the National Health Service help the UK lead the way in personalised medicine and digital healthcare technology?
That's the enticing prospect held out by ministers as they unveil initiatives weeks before the end of this parliament.
At the heart of the vision is genomics - the analysis of an individual's complete set of genetic information.
Its been announced that members of two families have been diagnosed with rare conditions as a result of an analysis of their genomes - they will now be eligible for personalised treatment.
There is great enthusiasm about the 100,000 genome project, which aims to sequence that number of genomes from NHS patients by 2017.
The health service is seen to be in the unique position of having access to a lifetime of medical records for a patient and that person's genome data.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31839118
That's the enticing prospect held out by ministers as they unveil initiatives weeks before the end of this parliament.
At the heart of the vision is genomics - the analysis of an individual's complete set of genetic information.
Its been announced that members of two families have been diagnosed with rare conditions as a result of an analysis of their genomes - they will now be eligible for personalised treatment.
There is great enthusiasm about the 100,000 genome project, which aims to sequence that number of genomes from NHS patients by 2017.
The health service is seen to be in the unique position of having access to a lifetime of medical records for a patient and that person's genome data.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31839118