Back on track on its funding . Well, first, let me say we were thrilled, also to see whats in the 211st century cure, its the 2 billion a year of mandatory, gave a great jolt of excitement and some relief to a community thats. Really quite stressed over the last 12 years as we lost ground but to get back on a stable trajectory that would result in a healthy Biomedical Research ecosystem, which our country depended on with Great Success over 50 years, i estimate in my professional judgment, we need to be in the space of inflation plus 4 or 5 a year. Thats pretty much that dotted line plus inflation plus 3. 7 i guess, a healthy way to make sure all the talent and capabilities of this country in terms of Biomedical Research, where we led the world for decades, would be sustained, encouraged, and innovation going forth in the ways we want it to. Thank you, dr. Collins. it 2 billion a year for five years is better than nothing, but not pretend that a small temporary investment billions of d
Goes to her doctor, who orders a lung ct scan and a new blood test developed through research supported by the Precision Medicine initiative to look for dna and other biomarkers circulating in her blood. The ct scan detects a tiny spot that could be inflammation from bronchitis or cancer not clear, but the biomarker test clinches the diagnosis, revealing a genetic mutation that occurs only in patients with cancer. In 2015, today her prognosis from this cancer would be pretty grim. But in 2018 that could all change. Lily is treated with surgery to remove the tumor and the tumor dna undergoes molecular analysis. Based on those results, lily is treated with a targeted drug that was originally developed for skin cancer but has the right properties for her tumor. She also receives a course of immunotherapy designed to kill any tumor cells that may be lurking in her body. With this treatment a decade later, lily remains cancer free. Thats a hypothetical but quite realistic of what the cancer
This morning were Holding Hearing on continuing americas leadership realizing the promise of Precision Medicine. Well have an Opening Statement then introduce our witnesses, who are getting to be very familiar to us. Were very grateful to you for coming. After that, we will have time to ask five minute rounds of questions or two, depending how many senators are here. We are here today to discuss exciting new direction in our health care called Precision Medicine. What does that mean . Well, those of us in the room a good representation of the population, they estimate one in ten of us would have diabetes. If doctors could use Precision Medicine, that is if they could look at our individual dna and genetic, molecular makeup of disease, perhaps they could tailor treatments to each individual rather than to more general category of diabetes. I was visited this morning by the head of philadelphia Childrens Hospital who talked about their work in identifying a defective gene, mutated geneti
This transition phase. We saw that only a fairly small percentage of consumers have on line access to their medical records. It is about 26 of people who also had said in ehr. For those that did, their views were very different and their experiences were very different. There were more engaged in their care and more motivated to do something to improve their care and they felt more confident in their clinicians ability to manage their care with them and began to really set up more of a partnership constructs. It will be very interesting to see end stage 2, where the requirement will be applicable applicable the chicken go on line and you can download and you can transmit and i think that will be interesting. From the consumer viewpoint, we are at a point where they are experiencing some tangible benefits. It is early in the program and that is fabulous. I think what is about to happen will the transformational. There is one allegation related to Electronic Health records of which is th
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