Implementing Personalized Medicine in a Large Health Care System

Dear colleagues,

Partners Health Care has over 60,000 employees including over 10,000 physicians and sees 4 million patients on an annual basis, making it the largest health care system in Massachusetts and one of the largest academic medical centers in the US. Personalized medicine is a Department of Partners Health Care that is responsible for enabling the use of genomics to subset patients for the best possible treatments. The Department also works to develop its solutions for Partners eCARE our electronic medical record and we provide core services to investigators to enhance research in personalized medicine. This issue of JPM will detail a variety of initiatives across Partners that are aimed at advancing the care of our patients with the most advanced genomic technologies.

Prof. Dr. Scott T. Weiss
Guest Editor

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