Precision medicine: huge promise, high hurdles

Healthcare IT News: Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, traveled 400,000 miles in 2018 – jetting all over the world, from China to India to Scotland to Scandinavia.

On those journeys, he's seen how care is delivered in very different ways. In China, for instance (he's been there 35 times), there is no primary care. As a result, patients can self-select any provider, leading to a scattered lifetime record across diverse provider sites.

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