Feasibility of Large Scale Implementation of Personalized Medicine in the Current Scenario

Abstract

Personalized Medicine (PM) is an emerging concept in the modern healthcare system and can play a vital role in modern healthcare management. If this concept can be adopted and implemented in a proper manner, the entire healthcare system will attain an elevated dimension. However, there exist many difficulties in adopting personalized healthcare system. An attempt has been made in this paper to present the data obtained through survey that has been conducted amongst a group of medical practitioners and a group of patients. The data collected have then been analysed by resorting to statistical techniques. The study shows that despite many personalized medicines have been discovered for use, it is difficult to adopt the personalized medicare system due to lack of adequate infrastructures, healthcare record system, communication among the medical doctors and genomic researchers, awareness and encouragement of common people, proper training of medical doctors, and confidentiality of the patients.

Patients’ and professionals’ views related to ethical issues in precision medicine: a mixed research synthesis

“…Alharbi et al assessed the knowledge of 126 South Arabian physicians about PM in diabetes mellitus management and found that 82.5% of the participants had poor knowledge in this area [ 82 ]. These and other studies [ 37 , 44 – 47 , 58 , 86 , 105 – 108 ] reveal the need for further education of many health care providers, however, this requirement may vary between professionals in different fields [ 53 , 81 ]. An exception seems to be the skills of physicians in oncology.…”

“…A survey of medical practitioners and patients in India gives a somewhat more optimistic impression. Some of the respondents believe that data confidentiality is secured by advances in technology, while others are suspicious of whether the person entrusted with confidentiality can guarantee data security [ 105 ]. However, it seems that the human factor is the greatest weakness of the system.…”

“…In several studies, professionals and patients express concern about the high cost of PM. Although professionals expect a reduction of the overall health care costs in the long term [ 47 ], some health care professionals question the cost–benefit ratio of PM [ 30 , 54 , 84 , 105 ]. Compared to the costs of chronic diseases, PM costs are perceived as not only being massive, but also caused by a much smaller proportion of the entire patient population [ 30 ].…”

Cloud‐based healthcare management: Identifying the privacy concerns and their moderating effect on the cloud‐based health‐care services

“…Despite all the benefits of cloud‐based services, the rate of its adoption in the healthcare sector is not as expected. Several authors and cloud experts have stated that the primary concerns inhibiting cloud adoption in healthcare sector have been privacy concerns , , , , , . These concerns make patients and medical workers worry about the usage of cloud‐based healthcare services as they fear the loss of their private data , .…”

Identifying Critical Changes in Adoption of Personalized Medicine (PM) in Healthcare Management

“…In the same scholarly article, the authors have dwelt on a number of issues that offer hindrance to the implementation of this scientific mode of clinical treatment. Misra and Bisui (2015) have also researched the feasibility of Personalized Medicine adoption. They have shown that in the given scenario it is quite difficult to adopt Personalized Medicine successfully.…”