Personalized treatments for chronic conditions have the potential to transform the way we prevent and treat disease by tailoring prescriptions to each person's unique genetic makeup and health information. The mainstream approach to chronic condition management assumes that all patients are similar but treatments are usually...
Emerging digital health technologies offer doctors a deep view inside patients’ health and can speed diagnosis as well as treatment. As technology becomes more fundamental to healthcare, early detection, screening and personalized treatment technologies will lead to preventive healthcare and improvements in the health system. Nonetheless,...
Last week, the annual #BCTech Summit returned to Vancouver breaking attendance records drawing in more than 9,000 participants to nearly a dozen conference events with over 270 exhibitors and more than 200 speakers. The two-day conference brought together the brightest minds who highlighted the technologies...
We have reached over 250 users in our medication decision support tool, TreatGx! Here is one of our patient stories using personalized medication options with TreatGx. “Using TreatGxPlus was an amazing experience for me and I have seen a tremendous improvement in my health. The...
Closing the Evidence Gap Doctors, pharmacists, naturopaths, nurses, and other health professionals are able to write prescriptions within a regulatory framework identified by their professional organizations. All these bodies have remarkably similar approaches to prescribing as one might expect. They are based on recommendations set out...
As many as half of patients don’t take medications as prescribed, and 20% to 30% of prescriptions are never filled 1,2. This nonadherence to recommended treatment has dramatic effects on patients and the health care system. Lack of patient adherence leads to poor therapeutic outcomes...
Pharmacogenetics and medication decision support software can be used to find effective and safe antipsychotics for schizophrenia while preventing side effects. Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic mental health condition characterized by a variety of psychological and psychotic symptoms. Some of these symptoms may include hallucinations,...
The decision to quit smoking is a big step to improving your health. It is never too late to quit and the benefits include a reduction in cancer, heart and lung disease, and improved quality of life. When attempting to quit smoking, both counseling and smoking cessation...
Ticagrelor (Brilinta, Brilique, and Possia) is a platelet aggregation inhibitor used after a heart attack to prevent clots from forming and causing further heart attacks. At this moment, there no clear evidence for the use of pharmacogenetics for ticagrelor. PharmGKB, a NIH-funded database that curates knowledge...
TreatGx is an evidence-based medication decision support system that provides personalized prescribing options for the management of common conditions. TreatGx logic trees include: 1. status of the condition being treated 2. previous non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment(s) 3. current non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatment(s) 4. other diagnoses 5. pharmacogenetics 6. renal and hepatic function 7....