Plastic diagnostics: The remaking of disease and evidence in personalized medicine.

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Politically authorized reports on personalized and precision medicine stress an urgent need for finer-grained disease categories and faster taxonomic revision, through integration of genomic and phenotypic data. We identify inherent conflicts between the ideal of dynamic revision and existing regulatory functions of disease categories in, for example, the organization and management of health care systems.

🔑 Key Findings

• Developing a data-driven taxonomy is, however, not as simple as it sounds.
• It is often assumed that an integrated data infrastructure is relatively easy to implement in countries that already have highly centralized and digitalized health care systems.
• Our analysis of initiatives associated with the Danish National Genome Center, recently launched to bring Denmark to the forefront of personalized medicine, tells a different story.

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