A presentation by Neil Bennett regarding Action Duchenne and building a patient registry, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Jillian Hastings Ward: Genomics England Towards 5 Million Genomes in the UKJoe Ball
This document summarizes a presentation about the progress and future of genomic medicine in the UK. It discusses:
1) The achievements of the 100,000 Genomes Project, including over 122,000 samples collected and over 83,000 genomes sequenced, with 20-25% of rare disease cases and around 50% of cancer cases having potential treatment implications.
2) The vision to expand to sequencing 5 million genomes in the UK over the next 5 years, including expanding the Genomes Project to 1 million genomes and making whole genome sequencing available for all seriously ill children and rare disease/cancer patients through the NHS.
3) The implications for NHS patients, including a new Genomic Medicine Service and consent being sought
Allison Watson: What is Ring 20 and is there an Opportunity for Genetic Resea...Joe Ball
A presentation by Allison Watson regarding what is ring 20 and whether there is an opportunity for genetic research, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Dr Janet Allen from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust: Impact of Genome TechnologiesJoe Ball
A presentation by Dr Janet Allen from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust regarding the impact of genome technologies in Cystic Fibrosis research, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Driving networks locally - Embedding genomics in the South West: Professor Si...NHS England
The document discusses embedding genomics in healthcare in the South West of England. It summarizes:
1. The South West NHS Genomic Medicine Centre recruited nearly 2,000 participants for the 100,000 Genomes Project and achieved a 15% genetic diagnosis rate for families with rare diseases.
2. The Centre has transformed cancer sample processing and established formalin-free operating theatres to enable genomic testing for all eligible rare disease and cancer patients in the region.
3. A network of genomic champions, nurses, histopathologists, and education providers has been established across seven acute trusts serving 2.2 million people to implement genomic medicine locally.
Mark Caulfield (Genomics England) - Understanding how genomics will transform...NHShcs
Genomics England is sequencing 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients to transform healthcare in the UK. This will help diagnose rare inherited diseases, cancers, and infectious pathogens. It will generate new treatments and establish the UK as a leader in genomic medicine. Rare disease diagnoses have already increased by 25-30% due to whole genome sequencing. In the future, genomics will be routinely used to deliver more precise therapies tailored to patients' genetic profiles.
The Role of Patients & their Challenges in Clinical TrialsKathi Apostolidis
What are clinical trials
Myths about clinical trials
What patients want
The role of patients in clinical trials
How to communicate trial information
How to communicate trial results
This document discusses enabling precision medicine in cancer through an open community-driven knowledge management system. It notes that each tumor has a unique set of somatic DNA alterations that affect drug response and resistance. The challenges are interpreting and prioritizing clinically actionable variants from ongoing clinical trials, electronic health records, biomedical literature, genomic databases, and other resources. The proposed solution is an integrated cancer knowledge base that combines these data sources using semantic web technologies and ontologies for clinical decision support. Community curation of evidence for actionable genomic events would specify levels, types, and directions of actionability.
Jillian Hastings Ward: Genomics England Towards 5 Million Genomes in the UKJoe Ball
This document summarizes a presentation about the progress and future of genomic medicine in the UK. It discusses:
1) The achievements of the 100,000 Genomes Project, including over 122,000 samples collected and over 83,000 genomes sequenced, with 20-25% of rare disease cases and around 50% of cancer cases having potential treatment implications.
2) The vision to expand to sequencing 5 million genomes in the UK over the next 5 years, including expanding the Genomes Project to 1 million genomes and making whole genome sequencing available for all seriously ill children and rare disease/cancer patients through the NHS.
3) The implications for NHS patients, including a new Genomic Medicine Service and consent being sought
Allison Watson: What is Ring 20 and is there an Opportunity for Genetic Resea...Joe Ball
A presentation by Allison Watson regarding what is ring 20 and whether there is an opportunity for genetic research, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Dr Janet Allen from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust: Impact of Genome TechnologiesJoe Ball
A presentation by Dr Janet Allen from the Cystic Fibrosis Trust regarding the impact of genome technologies in Cystic Fibrosis research, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Driving networks locally - Embedding genomics in the South West: Professor Si...NHS England
The document discusses embedding genomics in healthcare in the South West of England. It summarizes:
1. The South West NHS Genomic Medicine Centre recruited nearly 2,000 participants for the 100,000 Genomes Project and achieved a 15% genetic diagnosis rate for families with rare diseases.
2. The Centre has transformed cancer sample processing and established formalin-free operating theatres to enable genomic testing for all eligible rare disease and cancer patients in the region.
3. A network of genomic champions, nurses, histopathologists, and education providers has been established across seven acute trusts serving 2.2 million people to implement genomic medicine locally.
Mark Caulfield (Genomics England) - Understanding how genomics will transform...NHShcs
Genomics England is sequencing 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients to transform healthcare in the UK. This will help diagnose rare inherited diseases, cancers, and infectious pathogens. It will generate new treatments and establish the UK as a leader in genomic medicine. Rare disease diagnoses have already increased by 25-30% due to whole genome sequencing. In the future, genomics will be routinely used to deliver more precise therapies tailored to patients' genetic profiles.
The Role of Patients & their Challenges in Clinical TrialsKathi Apostolidis
What are clinical trials
Myths about clinical trials
What patients want
The role of patients in clinical trials
How to communicate trial information
How to communicate trial results
This document discusses enabling precision medicine in cancer through an open community-driven knowledge management system. It notes that each tumor has a unique set of somatic DNA alterations that affect drug response and resistance. The challenges are interpreting and prioritizing clinically actionable variants from ongoing clinical trials, electronic health records, biomedical literature, genomic databases, and other resources. The proposed solution is an integrated cancer knowledge base that combines these data sources using semantic web technologies and ontologies for clinical decision support. Community curation of evidence for actionable genomic events would specify levels, types, and directions of actionability.
GPS@WUSTL provides clinical genomic testing services, conducts research in genomics and pathology, and offers education programs. Their services include next-generation sequencing, cytogenomics, FISH, chromosomal microarray, and molecular diagnostics testing through CAP/CLIA certified laboratories. They also provide specialized oncology panels and full genetic and molecular pathology expertise. GPS@WUSTL partners with physicians, institutions, and companies on clinical and research initiatives aimed at developing new genetic tests, companion diagnostics, and genomic technologies.
The patient voice: turning health policy into opportunity - Jan Geissler - ES...patvocates
Presentation on how the patient voice can turn health policy into advocacy opportunities to improve the life of patients. Presented by Jan Geissler, Co-founder of CML Advocates Network, at the Patient Seminar of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) in Liverpool on 19 Sept 2013
Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath: Whole-genome sequencing to understand phe...Joe Ball
A presentation by Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath regarding using whole-genome sequencing to understand phenotypic heterogeneity in the AKU patient registry, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Date held: February 12, 2015
Presented by: Deb Davison, Genomic Health
Topics discussed:
The latest in genomic testing and its role in cancer treatment
The most recent results from Genomic Health’s second independent clinical validation study of Oncotype DX® in DCIS patients
Q&A session about the implications of this research
Please share this webinar with anyone who may be interested!
Watch all our webinars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4dDQscmFYu_ezxuxnAE61hx4JlqAKXpR
Cancer care is increasingly tailored to individual patients, who can undergo genetic or biomarker testing soon after diagnosis, to determine which treatments have the best chance of shrinking or eliminating tumours.
In this webinar, a pathologist and clinical oncologist discuss:
● how they are using these new tests,
● how they communicate results and treatment options to patients and caregivers, and
● how patients can be better informed on the kinds of tests that are in development or in use across Canada
View the video: https://youtu.be/_Wai_uMQKEQ
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Genetics is becoming more personalized with direct-to-consumer genetic testing services like 23andMe. 23andMe analyzes customers' DNA samples and provides information about their ancestry, traits, and disease risks through an online platform. This empowers individuals and facilitates research by creating a large participant network. While challenges remain in fully engaging all stakeholders, personalized genetics has the potential to transform healthcare by better targeting treatment to individual genetics.
This document discusses using large datasets for population-based health research. It describes how data comes from primary sources like national surveys and disease registries, as well as secondary sources from hospitals, government agencies, and private organizations. Secondary data can be used to monitor trends, study health disparities and geographic variation, and evaluate specific diseases and treatments. While large datasets allow researchers to study rare conditions and draw conclusions about large populations, there are limitations like data quality, lack of clinical details, and generalizability issues that require solutions. Future directions include developing more comprehensive health data networks.
This document discusses using data from the Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system to conduct precision oncology research. It describes extracting data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, including clinical records from cancer registries and records of patients who received tumor sequencing and immunotherapy. The author builds a cohort of 330 non-small cell lung cancer patients who received immunotherapy before 2018 and had their cancer verified in the registry to study outcomes like the impact of PD-L1 expression on response to treatment. Challenges include lag times in cancer registry reporting and building a large enough cohort to draw powerful conclusions from retrospective analyses.
The document discusses diagnosis and screening for rare diseases in Romania. It notes that rare diseases affect less than 5 in 10,000 people. Most rare diseases are genetic disorders resulting from mutations. Early detection of genetic disorders in newborns is important to reduce risks. While Romania screens for some disorders, testing is not uniform nationwide. Diagnosis of genetic diseases is possible at some universities but specialized resources are insufficient. The development of new genetic testing techniques has enabled diagnosis of more genetic disorders.
This document summarizes research initiatives and facilities at the University of Birmingham focused on translating biomedical discovery into improved health. It outlines an integrated life sciences campus containing various research centers, institutes, and clinical facilities clustered around an Institute of Translational Medicine. Key areas of focus include chronic inflammatory disease, cancer, endocrinology/metabolism, and enabling digital technologies. Initiatives leverage nationally-funded centers for areas like arthritis, liver disease, and trauma to advance discovery science through clinical trials and implementation into patient care.
The document discusses precision medicine and genetic testing. It presents a hypothetical case in 2010 of a 23-year-old man named John who undergoes genetic testing to determine his risk for various diseases. The testing reveals both increased and decreased risks compared to the general population. John is able to take preventive measures, such as medication and lifestyle changes, to reduce his risk of diseases like heart disease and cancer based on his genetic results. The document also discusses ensuring public understanding and consent regarding genetic testing and precision medicine.
The document discusses the importance of real world evidence (RWE) in oncology. RWE is useful because real patient populations differ from clinical trial populations, limiting the external validity of trial results. Patient advocates are interested in RWE because it can avoid randomization, has already been used for regulatory approval, and allows more efficient and systematic learning from large real-world data sets which is important for personalized medicine. The document provides further reading on the use of RWE in regulatory approval and health technology assessments.
Tameside patient conference Information Governanceamirhannan
This document discusses information governance challenges and opportunities across Greater Manchester and England. It provides an overview of the speaker's professional journey in information governance and describes initiatives like the Local Health and Care Record to improve data sharing and integrated care. Key points discussed include the need for digitally transforming healthcare, adhering to privacy and security standards, and meaningfully involving patients and citizens in the process.
ClinicalCodes.org: An online repository of clinical code lists for primary ca...David Springate
This document discusses ClinicalCodes.org, an online repository for clinical code lists used in primary care database research. It outlines issues with a lack of published code lists, such as inability to validate or replicate studies and difficulty comparing studies over time as condition definitions change. ClinicalCodes.org aims to address these issues by providing a central location for researchers to upload, download, and archive code lists. This would improve research quality and allow other researchers to build upon previous work in a standardized way. Motivations for researchers to upload their code lists include validation of their work, increased citations, and a requirement by journals and funders for transparent and accessible code lists.
This document discusses precision medicine and its future applications. It notes that currently many patients do not respond to initial treatments for common conditions like depression, asthma, diabetes and Alzheimer's. Precision medicine aims to change this by using massive datasets including genomics, clinical information, and population data to better understand disease at the individual level and tailor diagnosis and treatment specifically for each patient. This more personalized approach could help get the right treatment to patients more quickly and effectively.
This document discusses using big data to advance personalized medicine in oncology. It notes that clinical studies and registries contain data from hundreds of cancer patients but it is fragmented across different organizations. The IMI2 HARMONY project aims to address this by creating a single big data platform to harmonize hematological malignancy data from over 45,000 patients across various clinical trials and registries. This will allow researchers to better understand patient subgroups and predictors of outcomes. The document outlines some of HARMONY's research projects and efforts to involve patients to help overcome challenges to large-scale data sharing and utilization.
This document discusses cannabis and its link to schizophrenia. It notes that cannabis comes from the Cannabis sativa plant and is ingested in forms like hash, weed, and sinsemella. Cannabis contains chemicals like THC that can cause effects like hallucinations and increased health risks. The document proposes a hypothesis that cannabis use is linked to developing schizophrenia and describes a longitudinal study that would survey cannabis users and non-users over several years to understand this relationship through statistical analysis.
Rare Disease Centres of Excellence Webinar May 5, 2022
Christopher McMaster/Etienne Richer, CIHR Institute of Genetics
Craig Campbell, Department of Pediatrics, Western University
Domenica Talarico, European Reference Networks
Matt Bolz-Johnson, WHO-RDI Global Rare Disease Network
Presentation by Chad Kimbler and Carla Tressell. Presented at the 2018 Eyes on a Cure: Patient & Caregiver Symposium, hosted by the Melanoma Research Foundation's CURE OM initiative.
The document discusses the International Rare Disease Research Consortium (IRDiRC), which aims to deliver 200 new therapies and means to diagnose most rare diseases by 2020. It outlines IRDiRC's goals of international cooperation and data sharing between public and private funders. Over $1B has been committed worldwide by over 30 member organizations. Progress includes identifying genes for over 3,400 rare diseases and tests for over 3,300. 137 new therapies have been developed so far. Challenges include increasing gene discovery rates and establishing unified databases. Initiatives to address these include PhenoTips and Matchmaker Exchange for matching unsolved cases.
GPS@WUSTL provides clinical genomic testing services, conducts research in genomics and pathology, and offers education programs. Their services include next-generation sequencing, cytogenomics, FISH, chromosomal microarray, and molecular diagnostics testing through CAP/CLIA certified laboratories. They also provide specialized oncology panels and full genetic and molecular pathology expertise. GPS@WUSTL partners with physicians, institutions, and companies on clinical and research initiatives aimed at developing new genetic tests, companion diagnostics, and genomic technologies.
The patient voice: turning health policy into opportunity - Jan Geissler - ES...patvocates
Presentation on how the patient voice can turn health policy into advocacy opportunities to improve the life of patients. Presented by Jan Geissler, Co-founder of CML Advocates Network, at the Patient Seminar of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) in Liverpool on 19 Sept 2013
Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath: Whole-genome sequencing to understand phe...Joe Ball
A presentation by Professor Lakshminarayan Ranganath regarding using whole-genome sequencing to understand phenotypic heterogeneity in the AKU patient registry, delivered at Sano Genetics' Demystifying Genomics for Patient Registries Event on 11th July 2019.
Date held: February 12, 2015
Presented by: Deb Davison, Genomic Health
Topics discussed:
The latest in genomic testing and its role in cancer treatment
The most recent results from Genomic Health’s second independent clinical validation study of Oncotype DX® in DCIS patients
Q&A session about the implications of this research
Please share this webinar with anyone who may be interested!
Watch all our webinars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4dDQscmFYu_ezxuxnAE61hx4JlqAKXpR
Cancer care is increasingly tailored to individual patients, who can undergo genetic or biomarker testing soon after diagnosis, to determine which treatments have the best chance of shrinking or eliminating tumours.
In this webinar, a pathologist and clinical oncologist discuss:
● how they are using these new tests,
● how they communicate results and treatment options to patients and caregivers, and
● how patients can be better informed on the kinds of tests that are in development or in use across Canada
View the video: https://youtu.be/_Wai_uMQKEQ
Follow our social media accounts:
Twitter - https://twitter.com/survivornetca
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CanadianSurvivorNet
Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/survivornetwork
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/Survivornetca
Genetics is becoming more personalized with direct-to-consumer genetic testing services like 23andMe. 23andMe analyzes customers' DNA samples and provides information about their ancestry, traits, and disease risks through an online platform. This empowers individuals and facilitates research by creating a large participant network. While challenges remain in fully engaging all stakeholders, personalized genetics has the potential to transform healthcare by better targeting treatment to individual genetics.
This document discusses using large datasets for population-based health research. It describes how data comes from primary sources like national surveys and disease registries, as well as secondary sources from hospitals, government agencies, and private organizations. Secondary data can be used to monitor trends, study health disparities and geographic variation, and evaluate specific diseases and treatments. While large datasets allow researchers to study rare conditions and draw conclusions about large populations, there are limitations like data quality, lack of clinical details, and generalizability issues that require solutions. Future directions include developing more comprehensive health data networks.
This document discusses using data from the Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system to conduct precision oncology research. It describes extracting data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, including clinical records from cancer registries and records of patients who received tumor sequencing and immunotherapy. The author builds a cohort of 330 non-small cell lung cancer patients who received immunotherapy before 2018 and had their cancer verified in the registry to study outcomes like the impact of PD-L1 expression on response to treatment. Challenges include lag times in cancer registry reporting and building a large enough cohort to draw powerful conclusions from retrospective analyses.
The document discusses diagnosis and screening for rare diseases in Romania. It notes that rare diseases affect less than 5 in 10,000 people. Most rare diseases are genetic disorders resulting from mutations. Early detection of genetic disorders in newborns is important to reduce risks. While Romania screens for some disorders, testing is not uniform nationwide. Diagnosis of genetic diseases is possible at some universities but specialized resources are insufficient. The development of new genetic testing techniques has enabled diagnosis of more genetic disorders.
This document summarizes research initiatives and facilities at the University of Birmingham focused on translating biomedical discovery into improved health. It outlines an integrated life sciences campus containing various research centers, institutes, and clinical facilities clustered around an Institute of Translational Medicine. Key areas of focus include chronic inflammatory disease, cancer, endocrinology/metabolism, and enabling digital technologies. Initiatives leverage nationally-funded centers for areas like arthritis, liver disease, and trauma to advance discovery science through clinical trials and implementation into patient care.
The document discusses precision medicine and genetic testing. It presents a hypothetical case in 2010 of a 23-year-old man named John who undergoes genetic testing to determine his risk for various diseases. The testing reveals both increased and decreased risks compared to the general population. John is able to take preventive measures, such as medication and lifestyle changes, to reduce his risk of diseases like heart disease and cancer based on his genetic results. The document also discusses ensuring public understanding and consent regarding genetic testing and precision medicine.
The document discusses the importance of real world evidence (RWE) in oncology. RWE is useful because real patient populations differ from clinical trial populations, limiting the external validity of trial results. Patient advocates are interested in RWE because it can avoid randomization, has already been used for regulatory approval, and allows more efficient and systematic learning from large real-world data sets which is important for personalized medicine. The document provides further reading on the use of RWE in regulatory approval and health technology assessments.
Tameside patient conference Information Governanceamirhannan
This document discusses information governance challenges and opportunities across Greater Manchester and England. It provides an overview of the speaker's professional journey in information governance and describes initiatives like the Local Health and Care Record to improve data sharing and integrated care. Key points discussed include the need for digitally transforming healthcare, adhering to privacy and security standards, and meaningfully involving patients and citizens in the process.
ClinicalCodes.org: An online repository of clinical code lists for primary ca...David Springate
This document discusses ClinicalCodes.org, an online repository for clinical code lists used in primary care database research. It outlines issues with a lack of published code lists, such as inability to validate or replicate studies and difficulty comparing studies over time as condition definitions change. ClinicalCodes.org aims to address these issues by providing a central location for researchers to upload, download, and archive code lists. This would improve research quality and allow other researchers to build upon previous work in a standardized way. Motivations for researchers to upload their code lists include validation of their work, increased citations, and a requirement by journals and funders for transparent and accessible code lists.
This document discusses precision medicine and its future applications. It notes that currently many patients do not respond to initial treatments for common conditions like depression, asthma, diabetes and Alzheimer's. Precision medicine aims to change this by using massive datasets including genomics, clinical information, and population data to better understand disease at the individual level and tailor diagnosis and treatment specifically for each patient. This more personalized approach could help get the right treatment to patients more quickly and effectively.
This document discusses using big data to advance personalized medicine in oncology. It notes that clinical studies and registries contain data from hundreds of cancer patients but it is fragmented across different organizations. The IMI2 HARMONY project aims to address this by creating a single big data platform to harmonize hematological malignancy data from over 45,000 patients across various clinical trials and registries. This will allow researchers to better understand patient subgroups and predictors of outcomes. The document outlines some of HARMONY's research projects and efforts to involve patients to help overcome challenges to large-scale data sharing and utilization.
This document discusses cannabis and its link to schizophrenia. It notes that cannabis comes from the Cannabis sativa plant and is ingested in forms like hash, weed, and sinsemella. Cannabis contains chemicals like THC that can cause effects like hallucinations and increased health risks. The document proposes a hypothesis that cannabis use is linked to developing schizophrenia and describes a longitudinal study that would survey cannabis users and non-users over several years to understand this relationship through statistical analysis.
Rare Disease Centres of Excellence Webinar May 5, 2022
Christopher McMaster/Etienne Richer, CIHR Institute of Genetics
Craig Campbell, Department of Pediatrics, Western University
Domenica Talarico, European Reference Networks
Matt Bolz-Johnson, WHO-RDI Global Rare Disease Network
Presentation by Chad Kimbler and Carla Tressell. Presented at the 2018 Eyes on a Cure: Patient & Caregiver Symposium, hosted by the Melanoma Research Foundation's CURE OM initiative.
The document discusses the International Rare Disease Research Consortium (IRDiRC), which aims to deliver 200 new therapies and means to diagnose most rare diseases by 2020. It outlines IRDiRC's goals of international cooperation and data sharing between public and private funders. Over $1B has been committed worldwide by over 30 member organizations. Progress includes identifying genes for over 3,400 rare diseases and tests for over 3,300. 137 new therapies have been developed so far. Challenges include increasing gene discovery rates and establishing unified databases. Initiatives to address these include PhenoTips and Matchmaker Exchange for matching unsolved cases.
This document outlines a proposed strategy for rare diseases in Canada. It begins by providing examples of patients who experienced delays in diagnosis or unnecessary procedures due to a lack of awareness and resources for rare diseases. It then outlines 8 goals for improving outcomes: 1) increasing public awareness; 2) recognizing diversity of rare diseases; 3) improving prevention and early detection; 4) supporting patient communities; 5) ensuring timely access to care; 6) using evidence-based decision making; 7) improving access to therapies; and 8) fostering innovative research. For each goal, it describes current initiatives and additional actions needed to fully achieve the goal of optimizing care and outcomes for rare disease patients in Canada.
This document discusses the role of general practices in New Zealand and opportunities for health informatics. It outlines that general practices are the primary care provider responsible for longitudinal patient health records. It also describes the general practice information framework including standardized systems, backups, support services and high levels of electronic health record adoption. Finally, it discusses priorities around enabling patient-centered care, organized general practice through population health tools, and demonstrating leadership in multidisciplinary healthcare through information sharing.
This document outlines a lecture on eHealth. It discusses how eHealth can support healthcare through electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, telemedicine, and standards. Examples are provided of how telemedicine is used in minor injury units in Cornwall and by NHS Direct. eHealth/eScience is described as supporting cancer diagnosis and treatment through technologies like teleconferencing, imaging delivery, data mining of patient records, and access to medical simulations. Overall the document provides an overview of existing and future applications of eHealth.
This document discusses biobanks and registries, their value for research, and opportunities for patient involvement. It describes how biobanks store biological samples and associated data to support research. Registries collect standardized clinical data on patient populations over time. Both require governance and quality management. The document presents two cases where patient organizations were involved in biobank and registry co-creation and governance to help advance research.
This document discusses innovation in health and e-health. It notes that populations are aging and chronic conditions are increasing, putting demands on healthcare systems and professionals. It describes Odense University Hospital as a major Danish healthcare center that receives 10% of the country's healthcare budget. The hospital's innovation focuses on buildings, processes, and systems like infrastructure, communication platforms, shared care systems, robots, and cross-sectoral collaboration. It discusses telemedicine and using a MAST model for assessing telemedicine applications across multiple domains. The document emphasizes staying patient-focused, collaborating locally and globally, developing and testing new technologies, and ensuring recruitment and expansion of competencies to serve future hospitals.
I will discuss the formation and subsequent growth of IRDiRC into an organization with nearly 40 public and private funder members who have collectively pledged over 1 billion euros for rare disease research. I will also present the goals of IRDiRC, the plan that has been developed to achieve them, and the progress that has been made thus far. Finally, I will explore how additional organizations can take part in this international collaborative effort
Legal barriers to better use of health data to deliver pharmaceutical innovationOffice of Health Economics
The document discusses legal barriers to using health data to deliver pharmaceutical innovation. It conducted interviews with pharmaceutical industry members and external experts to identify key barriers. It found uncertainties around appropriate legal bases for data processing under GDPR without consent, heterogeneous data access across countries, and issues with anonymization. It proposes solutions like developing common standards, clarifying GDPR exemptions, and an industry code of conduct to address uncertainties and build trust. The conclusion states that while GDPR does not inherently create barriers, uncertainties remain, and stakeholders should work together proactively to enable important research.
Improving health care outcomes with responsible data scienceWessel Kraaij
Keynote presentation by Wessel Kraaij at the Dutch pattern recognition and impage processing society (NVPBV) 29/5/2018, Eindhoven.
This talk discusses
1. trends in health care and respondible data science and their intersection
2. Secure federated analytics on distributed data repositories
3. Generating clinically relevant hypotheses from patient forum discussions.
This document summarizes the key points in developing global registries for rare diseases. It discusses the definition of rare diseases and registries, and compares registries to randomized controlled trials. Registries can collect real-world data on large populations over long periods of time. The document outlines challenges in rare disease research and treatment that registries can help address. It provides examples of national and European registry initiatives and discusses harmonizing data collection across borders. The need for public health and research-focused registries is described. Finally, a successful European registry for intoxication-type metabolic diseases is presented as a case study.
This document discusses Denmark's national health registries and their use for epidemiological research. It notes that Denmark assigns unique personal identification numbers to all citizens, allowing accurate linkage between various health registries. This enables large population-based cohort studies with long-term follow up. The registries contain information on healthcare utilization, prescriptions, and diagnoses. Several studies are described that use the registries to study topics like MMR vaccination and autism, quality of diabetes care, and blood pressure control. Challenges with using registry data include ensuring validity of diagnoses and missing data. However, strengths include no selection bias, large sample sizes, and prospectively collected data.
A Vision for a National Research Network Brian Ahier
The document discusses the vision for a National Patient-Centered Research Network that would help address challenges with clinical research. It would bring together 20-30 million people with diverse characteristics and broad consent for research using their electronic health records over many years. This would allow for more efficient observational studies and randomized trials on topics like mobile health applications, low back pain treatments, and large-scale pharmacogenomics. The network could significantly reduce research costs and help engage more of the public in medical research. Now is a good time to pursue this vision as electronic health records are more widely used and opportunities for clinical questions are greater.
This document discusses developing a framework for evidence-based medicine using real-world data. It outlines developing a framework that captures baseline rates and evolves over time. The objective is to facilitate discussion on assembling baseline data from sources like clinical trials, patient data, and genomic studies to derive treatable patient traits and map available therapies to identify unmet medical needs. It provides examples of establishing such a framework for a condition like atopic dermatitis and lists potential components needed like an up-to-date health metrics database and tools for evaluating disease burden and treatment efficacy.
Personalized medicine tools for clinical trials - kuchinkeWolfgang Kuchinke
Tools for personalised medicine in clinical trials. ---------
The implementation of clinical trials in personalized medicine is a different way of doing clinical research compared to the standard way of large clinical trials aiming for statistical significance. Personalized medicine uses a medical model that separates people into different groups with medical decisions, practices, drugs, interventions being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response. Basis for this approach is the progress of the study of the human genome and its variation over the last two decades. Especially advancement in automated DNA sequencing and PCR and the use of expressed sequence tags (ESTs), cDNAs, antisense molecules, small nterfering RNAs (siRNAs), full-length genes and their expression products and haplotypes.
But adoption of personalized medicine requires an active and flexible and highly integrated infrastructure, which allows joining of many different competences and technologies. We asked the question: can the tools developed for personalized medicine in the p-pedicine project be employed effectively in a clinical trials network to support personalised clinical trials. We conducted an analysis of tool integration and the evaluation tool usage requirements. Based on the survey results, the tendency for clinical trial network ECRIN is to use software as a service in the form as SaaS or ASP. ECRIN data centres will (probably) not install and employ p-medicine tools in one of their data centres. A robust business model for the provision of services and the implementation and employment of tools does not yet exist.
How can the personalized medicine infrastructure p-medicine and the clinical trials network ECRIN gain from each other to allow the conduct of personalized clinical trials?
We suggest a business model, in which personal medicine infrastructures and clinical trials networks exchange their services to gain jointly from each other. Therefore: an integration by reciprocal exchange of services may be the solution. Not only software as a service will be exchanged, but also knowledge, personnel and joint staff trainings.
Personalized medicine tools for clinical trials - KuchinkeWolfgang Kuchinke
Tools for personalised medicine in clinical trials.
The implementation of clinical trials in personalized medicine is a different way of doing clinical research, compared to the standard way of large clinical trials aiming for statistical significance. Personalized medicine uses a medical model that separates people into different groups with medical decisions, practices, drugs, interventions being tailored to the individual patient based on their predicted response. Basis for this approach is the progress of the study of the human genome and its variation over the last two decades. Especially advancements in automated DNA sequencing, PCR technologies and the use of expressed sequence tags (ESTs), cDNAs, antisense molecules, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs).
But the adoption of personalized medicine requires an active and flexible and highly integrated infrastructure, which must allow the joining of many different competences and technologies. We asked the question: can the tools developed for personalized medicine in the p-pedicine project be employed effectively in a clinical trials network to support personalised clinical trials? We conducted an analysis of tool integration and the evaluation of tool usage requirements. Based on the survey results, the tendency for the clinical trial network ECRIN is to use software as a service in the form of SaaS or ASP. ECRIN data centres will (probably) not install and employ p-medicine tools in one of their data centres. A robust business model for the provision of services and the implementation and employment of tools does not yet exist.
How can the personalized medicine infrastructure p-medicine and the clinical trials network ECRIN gain from each other to allow the conduct of personalized clinical trials? We suggest a business model, in which personalized medicine infrastructures and clinical trials networks exchange their services to gain jointly from each other. An integration of networks by reciprocal exchange of services may be the solution. Not only software as a service will be exchanged, but also knowledge, personnel and staff trainings.
EuroBioForum 2013 - Day 1 | Etienne RicherEuroBioForum
EuroBioForum 2013 2nd Annual Conference
27-28 May 2013 - Hilton Munich City, Munich, Germany
http://www.eurobioforum.eu/2013
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# NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES #
Canada:
Personalised Medicine: A Canadian Collaborative Perspective'
Dr Étienne Richer, Assistant Director at CIHR Institute of Genetics
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Conducted over a period of >200 years, Thermodynamics R&D, and application, benefitted from the highest levels of professionalism, collaboration, and technical thoroughness. New layers of application, methodology, and practice were made possible by the progressive advance of technology. In turn, this has seen measurement and modelling accuracy continually improved at a micro and macro level.
Perhaps most importantly, Thermodynamics rapidly became a primary tool in the advance of applied science/engineering/technology, spanning micro-tech, to aerospace and cosmology. I can think of no better a story to illustrate the breadth of scientific methodologies and applications at their best.
2. A world where lives are no longer
limited by Duchenne muscular dystrophy
3. Setting up the UK DMD Registry
- Globally, one of the first for Duchenne (in 2006/7)
- Original registry built by a parent with IT knowledge
- Support of the DMD community and endorsed by professionals
- Steering committee: clinicians, geneticists, families
- Patient registry, regulated by Data Protection and GDPR
4. Our model
- Voluntary and anonymous
- Web based, patient-input model
- Gene mutation validated by geneticist
5. What to collect?
- Data set agreed with gobal federation of registries (TREAT-NMD)
- Covers a range of areas
- Demographic
- Medical interventions
- Functional measures
- Trial inclusion criteria
6. How does the registry support clinical trials?
- Originally designed to drive recruitment
- Duchenne trials have a genetic inclusion criteria
- Build alongside the original trials
- Now most concerned with feasibility studies
- Approached by pharmas interested in UK trial centres
- Communication between researchers and patients
7. How does the registry support research?
- Record prevalence and natural history of the disease
- Sending surveys to targeted audiences
- Identifying participants for basic research studies
- Provide information to clinical care studies
- Communication between researchers and patients
8. Addressing the challenges
- Maintaining engagement for data updating
- Collecting certified medical data
- Dedicated registry curator
- First point of contact
- Well-known in community