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By Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat, Daniel Rukavina, Krešimir Pavelić, Gerald G. Sander
This e-book deals finished insurance of a number of the elements of custom-made drugs as an unique method of classifying, figuring out, treating and combating affliction in keeping with person organic alterations. within the introductory part, it defines customized drugs as a fashion towards new scientific practices and addresses the query: What can customized drugs provide electorate, doctors, repayment our bodies and stakeholders? next chapters speak about the technological points of customized drugs: facts assortment, complete integration and dealing with of knowledge, including key allowing components in constructing the needful technological aid for customized medication. finally, the e-book explores the most matters shaping the implementation and improvement of customized medication – schooling, stakeholder participation, infrastructure, a brand new method of the category of ailment and clinical exams, regulatory frameworks, and new repayment versions – including moral, felony and social matters. eventually, the publication demands interdisciplinarity and a thorough swap within the approach we method the healthiness of people.
Target teams are docs and researchers within the box of biomedicine, in addition to specialists from the social sciences facing felony, monetary and social facets of future health procedure matters as a rule. although the ebook will essentially profit those teams specialists, its content material also will attract a miles wider readership, because it bargains with a paradigm shift in a single of society’s major pillars – the future health system.
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Horak It is important to analyze disputes regarding personalized medicine that arise not only in the fields of medical sciences, biotechnology, and nanotechnology but also in the fields of social law and economy, where the consequences of medical activities are manifested, as well as legal relations in connection therewith. This task basically entails identification and differentiation of personal interests of patients, probands, and persons displaying certain risks on the one side and third parties’ interests on the other.
Traditional division, where public law provisions lay the foundations for private law regulation of patients’ rights, fades away in the face of new challenges. 1 It is generally accepted that the principle of protection of patients’ privacy includes the right to confidentiality and privacy of information regarding health condition, family circumstances, course of treatment and prognosis, as well as all other pertinent information. In order to be able to provide the best quality of treatment, a doctor needs to obtain a lot of personal and sensitive information from the patient.
Will they be able to access services of individualized medicine that could be of special benefit to them, or will they be faced with great (financial) obstacles? 42 In compulsory health insurance, personalized medicine presents other kinds of challenges. Here, the amount of contributions and the scope of benefits do not depend on individual risks. 43 It seems that the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care could be the guiding principles for the integration of personalized medicine in compulsory health insurance.