Like anyone else who follows medical research, I’m fascinated by the progress of precision medicine initiatives. I often find myself explaining to relatives that in the (perhaps far distant) future, their doctor may be able to offer treatments customized specifically for them. The prospect is awe-inspiring even for me, someone who’s been researching and writing about health data for decades.
That being the case, there are problems in bringing so much personal information together into a giant database, suggests Jennifer Kulynych in an article for OUPblog, which is published by Oxford University Press.
