The ICPerMed believes personalised medicine could revolutionise healthcare by 2030. While the field does bring exciting progress, it also creates disparities, according to Yongjia Wang. Precision medicine, which uses genetic sequencing, is costly and the genomic research is unfairly balanced, with 80% coming from Europeans. Wang argues these issues, along with the question of who should cover treatment costs, creates an inequitable system where the rich benefit, while many others are left behind.
100 MILLION Americans in UnitedHealth PII Breach
UnitedHealth confirmed that February’s ransomware attack impacted 100 million people, the largest healthcare data breach in the US. Health insurance, health, billing, and personal information