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Birth of a Discipline: Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) Informatics

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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the field of PPM including fundamental concepts of PPM and also established and emerging frameworks of PPM. By adopting a paradigm-based description, the book encompasses seemingly different but ultimately highly interconnected formats of workflows both for the development and deployment of PPM modalities in research and clinical settings. The chapter describes the critical ways by which informatics supports and enables PPM and sets the stage for the reader to dive into the details of the chapters to follow.

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    Over the years, disease categories have been refined, abolished, merged or established as underlying common mechanisms of previously thought unrelated diverse symptom clusters (syndroms). Regardless of the re-organization of the nosological taxonomies the inexorable evolutionary trend is from less refined to more refined disease subtypes and related patient groups of increasing granularity and smaller sizes.

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  1. Department of Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Terrence Adam

  2. Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Terrence Adam

  3. PhD Program in Precision Medicine Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Terrence Adam

  4. Minneapolis Veterans Administration, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Terrence Adam

  5. Institute for Health Informatics, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Masonic Cancer Center, Program in Data Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Constantin Aliferis

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Adam, T., Aliferis, C. (2020). Birth of a Discipline: Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) Informatics. In: Adam, T., Aliferis, C. (eds) Personalized and Precision Medicine Informatics. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18626-5_1

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