A shift toward personalized healthcare: does the Affordable Care Act provide enough incentive for change?. (June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Teng, Kathryn
• Is Part Of: Personalized medicine. Volume 12:Number 3(Year 2015)
• Page Start: 231
• Page End: 235
• Publication Date: 2015-06
• Subjects: Affordable Care Act -- cost–effectiveness research -- mass personalization -- mass standardization -- personalized healthcare -- preventive care -- risk adjustment; Pharmacogenomics -- Periodicals; Pharmacogenetics -- Periodicals; 615.19
• DOI: 10.2217/pme.14.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-0541

Abstract

Personalized healthcare, which uses individual characteristics to better predict and prevent disease and customize therapies, is a potential solution to our current healthcare crisis. Personalized care aims to improve quality of care and reduce overall healthcare costs. Despite its potential, adoption of personalized healthcare has been slow for several reasons, one of which is related to financial incentives toward change. This perspective piece discusses how the Affordable Care Act (ACA), through support for preventive care and comparative effectiveness research, begins to align the right incentives toward innovation around personalized risk prediction, innovation that is much needed as we aim to improve the health of individuals and communities.