“We are aiming to create a cultural shift in the way we practice medicine...to a personalized, targeted approach." – Delos “Toby” M. Cosgrove, MD
Cleveland Clinic has created a Center for Personalized Healthcare, an initiative that will focus its initial efforts on personalizing patient care with gene-based information. The goal of this initiative is to allow healthcare providers to tailor medical management and preventive care plans to the individual characteristics of each patient with the goal of delaying, or even preventing, a potentially devastating outcome. These characteristics include each patients’ unique genetic information, environmental exposures, cultures and beliefs.
The Center for Personalized Healthcare at Cleveland Clinic (CPH) will operate as Cleveland Clinic’s hub for the identification, analysis, adoption and integration of select new services and technologies which will allow for personalized preventive care of patients. In its initial phase, the Center aims to provide physicians and nurses with the tools and resources they need to create genetically-informed personalized care plans for their patients. The Center also aims to provide information and tools to patients which will empower them to proactively participate in the management their health.
“We are aiming to create a cultural shift in the way we practice medicine, moving from a trial and error approach to a personalized, targeted approach,” said Delos “Toby” M. Cosgrove, MD, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic. “The Center for Personalized Healthcare is being created to allow us to quickly adopt select new approaches and discoveries – related to personalized genomic healthcare – and implement such approaches into our system.”
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