Advances in the field of Genomics are enabling doctors to easily control food poisoning outbreaks as reported by Will Ockenden yesterday through ABC News.
Experts took a decade and spent almost US$3 billion to successfully record the sequencing of human genome or DNA. Now, the public can access the tools used to sequence their own DNA for just less than US$100.
After finishing the work in 2003, advancements in research and development in Genomics have skyrocketed since. This can lead the medical world into a whole new level of discoveries and possibilities, like curing any type of disease.
Dr. Besser from the US Centers of Disease and Control and Prevention said that "Genomics is looking at all of the DNA in the bacteria or virus or fungus as a whole, instead of just looking at little pieces of it the way we've done in the past."
"It's looking at the entire DNA sequence, the blueprint of every one of these pathogens to get all the maximal amount of information from them," the doctor added.
The recent cases of Hepatitis A in Australia were resolved using this technology.
Another medical breakthrough happened because of Genomics at East Jefferson General Hospital (ECGH) in the U.S. as they announced their partnership with medCPU.
medCPU is a high-end decision support software that can offer a great help to doctors and other health workers to provide the right health services to patients.
It catches the complete clinical picture from the clinicians' notes, transcriptions, release rundowns and organized documentation that went into any Electronic Medical Record, and breaks it down against a developing library of best-practice material, creating constant exact prompts for best care thought.
The founding team of the system has been initiating clinical decision support for almost 20 years to reduce hospital errors in the U.S.
