Are We Ready For Personalized Medicine For Behavioral Disorders?

For most of the health care consuming public (meaning all of us), the era of personalized medicine can't get here too soon. The thought of having the mass customization of Amazon applied to our health care – using our clinical, lifestyle, and genomics data to come up a “prescription” for wellness and treatment – is very appealing.

And, personalized medicine has captured the attention of policymakers. The big investment was last year's $215 million infusion in the Personalized Medicine Initiative (see Obama Administration Announces Key Actions To Accelerate Precision Medicine Initiative). In February, this initiative got started with a one . . .