Population Based Genetic Screening

Newborn genetic screening, or any screening for that matter, has to meet cost savings and ethically beneficial criteria to make it a good public policy decision. Evolving health information data collection and networking will make it possible to identify early intervention / prevention cost savings much more accurately. With this upcoming wealth of information, health policies will be formed in an attempt to eliminate health disparities as much as reasonably possible. But in order to gain the most benefit in this country, the entire population needs to trust privacy protection methodologies. Newborn genetic screening will continue to expand and it is possible that adult population screening could occur as well. This will require individual willingness to subjugate some choice preferences (the freedom not to know future prognosis and privacy risks). The clinical application of genetic research is expanding and will test the commitment to our social contract within this nation.

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