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Preauthorization, insurance denials, uninsured patients, electronic medical records- the list goes on when looking at challenges to clinicians who want to practice medicine in a person-centered way. That’s according to Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean for education in Johns Hopkins School …

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Many clinicians believe a more human-centered approach needs to be taken in clinical medicine. One of them is Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean of education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who coined the term ‘personomics’ to describe it. He says …

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Personomics is a word coined by Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean for education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Ziegelstein says there are very specific ways such an approach would directly impact the practice of medicine. Ziegelstein: Taking into account factors …

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Patient centered care emerged several years ago as an attempt to recognize patients as humans and care for them as such. Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean of education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, says this initiative is different than …

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Clinical practice guidelines use study data to define how a disease or condition should be treated, while precision medicine assesses individual variation and integrates that into a treatment plan. Now what’s needed is personomics. That’s according to Roy Ziegelstein, vice …

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Precision medicine aims to integrate personal factors into what is known from studies into the care of an individual. Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean for education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, says personomics, which includes all the personal factors …

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Clinical practice guidelines attempt to standardize care for many diseases and conditions, yet in the process they remove humanity from the mix. Personomics, a term coined by Roy Ziegelstein, vice dean for education at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, …

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