2024-03-25 09:12:27
The health system is economically stressed. That is well known. Also, it is largely because the aging of the population has led to an increase in demand. Although the other underlying issue is that not only do we age, but innovation is allowing us to age better. An innovation that also requires financing. The question is whether this innovation represents an expense or if it is an investment.n which in turn helps the sustainability of the system itself.
This is the question raised by the Roche Institute in its new report ‘The value of Personalized Precision Medicine in the sustainability and efficiency of the health system‘. As he explained Maria Isidoroexpert collaborator of the study and scientific coordinator of the Strategic Plan for Precision Medicine of Castilla y León, the panel of experts agrees that Precision Medicine helps improve the efficiency of the SNS by reducing costs and time, identifying more susceptible populations, anticipating the development of diseases with the application in screening, using biomarkers linked to evolution and prognosis and above all reducing side effects by applying treatments to target populations.
Thus, from the perspective of health care and management, it meets the objective of adjust health care to the needs of each individual, which allows you to optimize the use of resources and reduce system load. “Precision Medicine allows us to combine pragmatic economic objectives with medical objectives. This confluence of the economic and human aspects is a triumph for medical ethics,” says Isidoro.
For its part, Enrique de Álava, also coordinator of the report, head of the Pathological Anatomy service at the Virgen de Rocío Hospital and coordinator of the Andalusia Personalized Precision Medicine Plan He insisted that it is necessary to begin evaluating the actions we take in order to be able to present their economic results and to be able to speak the language of managers or administration. Thus, he gave as an example how he began to do this same thing in projects in his hospital and how this extended is what they are trying to do in the Andalusian MPP Plan.
“Let everyone learn from everything”
Dr. Enrique de Álava, coordinator of the Personalized Precision Medicine Plan of Andalusia, insisted during the meeting held in Madrid on the need to coordinate these regional efforts with a more global vision, which helps to have greater planning and, above all, to measure not only the costs, but also evaluate the health results. “The problem is that we currently do not have a tool that allows us to measure the health outcomes of Precision Medicine.” All these challenges, from the perspective of Enrique de Álava, should be coordinated by a National Commission for Precision Medicine. Finally, another of the report’s conclusions is the need to have new professional profiles to create more multidisciplinary teams. In this sense, it is true that innovation increasingly makes the need for clinical geneticists or bioinformaticians more evident, but it is also necessary to have health economists who can generate more data on the economic impact of all the new technology that is yet to come. . “The objective is for everyone to learn regarding everything, those in the white coat from those who do not wear it and vice versa,” concluded Federico Plaza, vice president of the Roche Institute Foundation.
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