Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2014
Abstract
Personalized medicine epitomizes an evolving model of care tailored to the individual patient. This emerging paradigm harnesses radical technological advances to define each patient's molecular characteristics and decipher his or her unique pathophysiological processes. Translated into individualized algorithms, personalized medicine aims to predict, prevent, and cure disease without producing therapeutic adverse events. Although the transformative power of personalized medicine is generally recognized by physicians, patients, and payers, the complexity of translating discoveries into new modalities that transform health care is less appreciated. We often consider the flow of innovation and technology along a continuum of discovery, development, regulation, and application bridging the bench with the bedside. However, this process also can be viewed through a complementary prism, as a necessary supply chain of services and providers, each making essential contributions to the development of the final product to maximize value to consumers. Considering personalized medicine in this context of supply chain management highlights essential points of vulnerability and/or scalability that can ultimately constrain translation of the biological revolution or potentiate it into individualized diagnostics and therapeutics for optimized value creation and delivery.
Recommended Citation
Waldman, Scott A. and Terzic, Andre, "Managing the innovation supply chain to maximize personalized medicine." (2014). Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers. Paper 59.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/petfp/59
PubMed ID
24448453
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Volume 95, Issue 2, February 2014, Pages 113-118.
The published version is available at DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2013.228. Copyright © American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics