Stop and Look Around

Steven Rodgers SAMPE Past President and Consultant, EmergenTek LLC, states that professionals need to gather information about new technologies, materials, and processes that will empower them. He states that he attends a number of local technology events that are outside his immediate areas of expertise to achieve these objectives. He has attended such an event associated with healthcare services where he learned about personalized healthcare, which involves a new approach to medicine in which the efficacy of potential therapies are connected to a database of genomic types. He states that there is only one complicating factor in personalized healthcare involving the need for service givers to be able to read and record every patient's genome quickly and economically. The target is to be able to read and record an entire human genome accurately in a few minutes in a cost-effective manner.