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The Role of Innovation in Transforming Healthcare
Melis DEMİREZEN
Consider a world where doctors will be able to predict your best treatment with just a single sample of your DNA. It is already possible that you could get all sorts of medical advice by simply clicking your remote on the couch and so on. These are futuristic projections but they are no longer fantasy: realities of a new age created by radical innovations in health care. Innovation helps to make health care and medicine more productive. It improves the provision of care to patients and increases efficiency in healthcare systems. New technologies and significant research in modern medicine, enabled by innovation, have changed the face of health care in all its dimensions-from quality of care to accessibility and addressing complex medical challenges.
Personalized Medicine Wouldn’ t it be nice if every treatment that you received would be personalized for you? Personalized medicine will one day make this a reality. It is a new way of doing medicine that focuses on tailoring treatments to the genetically predisposed individuality of the patient. Using advanced equipment such as genetic testing and artificial intelligence( AI), doctors can figure out how people will respond to certain treatments, say,