Speaking at the Illumina Genomics Forum in San Diego, Obama lauds advances in precision health care but frustration at the pace of adoption.
Former President Barack Obama lauded the advances that researchers are making in precision medicine but lamented the sluggish pace of adoption of these technologies in the U.S. health care system at an event in San Diego on Wednesday.
Obama said the system has evolved so it is “more of a disease care system than a health care system. Until we reverse the incentive structure and the mindset inside that system, I suspect we are still going to have some problems.” The former president shared the stage with Sonia Vallabh, who has a similar story. She co-leads research on the prevention of prion disease at the Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT. Formerly a lawyer, she switched careers to biomedical research after her mother died of rapid, undiagnosed dementia at age 52. Vallabh underwent genetic testing and learned that she had inherited the mutation, placing her at a very high risk of developing the same disease.
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