As the baby boomer generation continues to age, older individuals will accumulate myriad chronic diseases that impact their mobility and leave them homebound. Therefore, it will be important to devise innovative and cost-effective means for delivering care to homebound individuals.…
Preventing Unnecessary ER Visits Using Personalized Health Planning
Each year in the United States, there are 130.4 million visits to the emergency department. These visits, especially nonemergency visits, are costly not only to the patient, but also to the health system. The average cost of an ER visit…
Precision Medicine World Conference DUKE
The first East Coast Precision Medicine World Conference, the 12th PMWC, will be hosted at Duke University on May 24-25. The conference is co-chaired by Dr. Ralph Snyderman, Chancellor Emeritus, Duke University, and Dr. Geoff Ginsburg, Director of the Duke…
Welcome NC CEO Forum Participants
On Friday, February 3rd, Dr. Ralph Snyderman spoke about “Taking Health Personally” at the NC CEO Forum. He introduced the concept of Personalized Health Care, the inflection curve of disease development, personalized health planning, and outlined the role of the…
New Article in NEJM Catalyst
On December 28th, Ralph Snyderman, Caroline Meade, and Connor Drake of the Duke Center for Research on Personalized Health Care published an article in NEJM Catalyst’s “Care Redesign” section. The piece, titled “To Adopt Precision Medicine, Redesign Clinical Care” highlights…
A Chancellor’s Tale: Transforming Academic Medicine
During his fifteen years as chancellor, Dr. Ralph Snyderman helped create new paradigms for academic medicine while guiding the Duke University Medical Center through periods of great challenge and transformation. Now, he has written a book chronicling his experience. …
Big Data: What It Is and How It Can Affect Your Health
Big Data in Healthcare Many industries have been quick to invest in and adopt infrastructure to support “big data” in recent years, but what exactly is “big data”? And how can it be applied to the healthcare industry? “Big data”…
Where’s the Plan? Health and Retirement
Just last week, I attended a workshop titled “Staying Out of Debt and Planning for Your Retirement”. Sounds like a bore, right? Not so much. Though the only incentive offered was free lunch, this workshop was highly attended, and attendees…
A Collaborative Effort: Preventing and Treating Childhood Obesity
Though the childhood obesity rate has been declining over the past several years, more than 1 in 6 children in the United States are still considered obese. Obesity takes both a physical and psychological toll on children. Obese children are…
Combating Drug Addiction with Personalized Care
The addiction epidemic is a largely neglected public health crisis in the United States. A study conducted by The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found that 40 million Americans over the age of 12 suffer…
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