title: Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine: The Role of Patient Data, Mobile Technology, and Consumer Engagement
author: Paul Cerrato
description: Paul Cerrato, MA, has had over 30 years of experience working in healthcare, as a clinician, researcher, author, editor, and college lecturer. The last 7 years have been spent researching and writing about healthcare technology. He has served as Editor of Information Week Healthcare, Executive Editor of Contemporary OB/GYN, and Senior Editor of RN Magazine. Cerrato is the author of Protecting Patient Information and the co-author with John Halamka of Realizing the Promise of Precision Medicine. He has been named one of the most influential bloggers in healthcare IT by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).<br /><br />John Halamka, MD, serves as the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is also Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess System and a practicing emergency physician. Dr. Halamka serves on one of the advisory committees for the Precision Medicine Initiative, which has been funded with $215 million from the U.S. government. He has devoted his career to empowering patients, providers, and payers with mobile-friendly applications exchanging data using international standards.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
   
  Praise
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Introduction
  Epigraph
   
  PART ONE • SETTING THE FOUNDATION
  Chapter 1 - THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE
  THE WAYS WE HAVE CHANGED: THE C’S
  DISRUPTION AND DESTRUCTION
  DEALING WITH A DATA DELUGE
  THE DATA-DRIVEN CULTURE
  THE BIG PICTURE SUPER-CONVERGENCE
  Chapter 2 - THE ORIENTATION OF MEDICINE TODAY
  Chapter 3 - TO WHAT EXTENT ARE CONSUMERS
  EMPOWERED?
   
  PART TWO • CAPTURING THE DATA
  Chapter 4 - PHYSIOLOGY
  BLOOD GLUCOSE AND DIABETES
  THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM AND HEART RHYTHM
  MONITORING
  VITAL SIGNS
  ASTHMA ATTACKS
  
  SLEEP APNEA
  MOOD DISORDERS
  AGING IN PLACE
  MEDICATION COMPLIANCE
  THE EMERGING WORLD AND THE MOBILE PHONE
  LABORATORY
  CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES OF WIRELESS
  MEDICINE
  THE OFFICE VISIT OF THE FUTURE
  WIRELESS SENSORS IN CARS
  Chapter 5 - BIOLOGY
  GENOMICS 101
  A PEEK INTO THE GENOME (GWAS)
  TEN YEARS LATER: THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST
  HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE
  PHARMACOGENOMICS
  PIVOTING TO SEQUENCING
  EXOME SEQUENCING
  WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING
  SEQUENCING TO SAVE A LIF