Pharmacogenetics: Opportunities and Challenges for Health Innovation

Pharmacogenetics: Opportunities and Challenges for Health Innovation

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-11-12

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9264076808

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This book reviews how the emergence of pharmacogenetics will impact the efficiency of pharmaceutical R&D and improve healthcare decision making and clinical care. It discusses what policies need to change in order for the public to reap the benefits from advances in diagnostic genetic testing.


Law and the Regulation of Medicines

Law and the Regulation of Medicines

Author: Emily Jackson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1847319092

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The principal purpose of this book is to tell the story of a medicine's journey through the regulatory system in the UK, from defining what counts as a medicine, through clinical trials, licensing, pharmacovigilance, marketing and funding. The question of global access to medicines is addressed because of its political importance, and because it offers a particularly stark illustration of the consequences of classifying medicines as a private rather than a public good. Two further specific challenges to the future of medicine's regulation are examined separately: first, pharmacogenetics, or the genetic targeting of medicines to subgroups of patients, and second, the possibility of using medicines to enhance well-being or performance, rather than treat disease. Throughout, the emphasis is on the role of regulation in shaping and influencing the operation of the medicines industry, an issue that is of central importance to the promotion of public health and the fair and equitable distribution of healthcare resources.


Data-Driven Innovation Big Data for Growth and Well-Being

Data-Driven Innovation Big Data for Growth and Well-Being

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9264229353

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This report improves the evidence base on the role of Data Driven Innovation for promoting growth and well-being, and provide policy guidance on how to maximise the benefits of DDI and mitigate the associated economic and societal risks.


Innovation and the Development Agenda

Innovation and the Development Agenda

Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2010-09-08

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9264088911

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Innovation drives long-term economic growth. It has a crucial role to play as global economies recover from the current financial crisis. This book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa. It investigates innovation systems and their application; the key role of knowledge in innovation for development; and the importance of comparable country studies and official statistics on innovation. It stresses the need for innovation to become part of a comprehensive development agenda, and makes recommendations for promoting activities in both the formal and informal sectors, with the aim of transforming agriculture into a knowledge-based industry capable of stimulating economic growth. Innovation and the Development Agenda is an important component of the overall OECD Innovation Strategy, which seeks to create stronger and more sustainable growth, while addressing the key global challenges of the 21st century. It is also part of the Innovation, Technology, and Society programme of IDRC. For more information about the OECD Innovation Strategy, see www.oecd.org/innovation/strategy. For more information on IDRC programmes, see www.idrc.ca.


The OECD Innovation Strategy Getting a Head Start on Tomorrow

The OECD Innovation Strategy Getting a Head Start on Tomorrow

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2010-05-28

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9264083472

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This book provides a set of principles for fostering innovation in people (workers and consumers), in firms and in government, taking an in-depth look at the scope of innovation and how it is changing, as well as where and how it is occurring.


The Bioeconomy to 2030 Designing a Policy Agenda

The Bioeconomy to 2030 Designing a Policy Agenda

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2009-04-15

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9264056882

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Describes the current status of biotechnologies and, using quantitative analyses of data, it estimates biotechnological developments to 2015. Using other inputs, it creates scenarios to 2030.


Personalized Psychiatry

Personalized Psychiatry

Author: Bernhard Baune

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-10-16

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0128131772

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Personalized Psychiatry presents the first book to explore this novel field of biological psychiatry that covers both basic science research and its translational applications. The book conceptualizes personalized psychiatry and provides state-of-the-art knowledge on biological and neuroscience methodologies, all while integrating clinical phenomenology relevant to personalized psychiatry and discussing important principles and potential models. It is essential reading for advanced students and neuroscience and psychiatry researchers who are investigating the prevention and treatment of mental disorders. - Combines neurobiology with basic science methodologies in genomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics - Demonstrates how the statistical modeling of interacting biological and clinical information could transform the future of psychiatry - Addresses fundamental questions and requirements for personalized psychiatry from a basic research and translational perspective


The Learning Healthcare System

The Learning Healthcare System

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2007-06-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0309133939

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As our nation enters a new era of medical science that offers the real prospect of personalized health care, we will be confronted by an increasingly complex array of health care options and decisions. The Learning Healthcare System considers how health care is structured to develop and to apply evidence-from health profession training and infrastructure development to advances in research methodology, patient engagement, payment schemes, and measurement-and highlights opportunities for the creation of a sustainable learning health care system that gets the right care to people when they need it and then captures the results for improvement. This book will be of primary interest to hospital and insurance industry administrators, health care providers, those who train and educate health workers, researchers, and policymakers. The Learning Healthcare System is the first in a series that will focus on issues important to improving the development and application of evidence in health care decision making. The Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine serves as a neutral venue for cooperative work among key stakeholders on several dimensions: to help transform the availability and use of the best evidence for the collaborative health care choices of each patient and provider; to drive the process of discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care; and, ultimately, to ensure innovation, quality, safety, and value in health care.