David Brown, Science and Program Director at Qatar Precision Medicine Institute, discusses how blockchain technology is the answer to the healthcare industry’s challenges with storing genomic data.
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The explosion of genomic data and the rise of precision medicine is transforming healthcare as we know it.
Precision medicine is an emerging approach to medical care that uses an individuals’ phenotypes and genotypes to tailor disease treatment and prevention. Its full potential lies in enabling medical practitioners to access and evaluate more specific information about their patients – otherwise known as genomic data – so that they can recommend the right therapeutics strategies.