Information systems have great potential to reduce healthcare costs and improve outcomes.
The purpose of this special issue is to offer a forum for theory-driven research that explores …

The state of wound oxygenation is a key determinant of healing outcomes. From a
diagnostic standpoint, measurements of wound oxygenation are commonly used to guide …

Multimodality imaging, as represented by its greatest exponent, PET/CT, has a firm place in
the evaluation of a patient presenting with cancer. With 18F-FDG, PET/CT is rapidly …

Rapid technical advances in DNA sequencing and genome-wide association studies are
driving the discovery of the germline and somatic mutations that are present in different …

A new generation of healthcare operations management (HOM) scholars is studying timely
healthcare topics (eg, organization design, design of delivery, and organ transplantation) …

Aim: Research and innovation in personalized medicine are surging, however, its adoption
into clinical practice is comparatively slow. We identify common challenges to the clinical …

Continuous drug monitoring is a promising alternative to current therapeutic drug monitoring
strategies and has a strong potential to reshape our understanding of pharmacokinetic …

Drawing on insights from work in medical history and sociology, this book analyzes
changing meanings of personalized medicine over time, from the rise of biomedicine in the …

Precisionmedicinehasthepotentialtotransfor…-cine by tailoring treatments to individuals. By
providingtherighttreatmentattherighttime, healthcarecould be delivered with greater …

I study the impact of the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), which established tax incentives for rare
disease drug development. I examine the flow of new clinical drug trials for a large set of …