This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of personalized medicine as an original approach to classifying, understanding, treating and preventing disease based on individual biological differences. In the introductory section, it defines personalized medicine as a way toward new medical practices and addresses the question: What can personalized medicine offer citizens, medical professionals, reimbursement bodies and stakeholders? Subsequent chapters discuss the technological aspects of personalized medicine: data collection, comprehensive integration and handling of data, together with key enabling factors in developing the requisite technological support for personalized medicine. Lastly, the book explores the main issues shaping the implementation and development of personalized medicine - education, stakeholder participation, infrastructure, a new approach to the classification of disease and medical tests, regulatory frameworks, and new reimbursement models- together with ethical, legal and social issues. Ultimately, the book calls for interdisciplinarity and a radical change in the way we approach the health and wellbeing of individuals.

Target groups are medical doctors and researchers in the field of biomedicine, as well as experts from the social sciences dealing with legal, economic and social aspects of health system issues in general. Though the book will primarily benefit these groups of professional experts, its content will also appeal to a far wider readership, as it deals with a paradigm shift in one of society's main pillars - the health system.

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Personalized Medicine The Path to New Medicine by Kreimir Paveli, Mirela Sedi and Sandra Kraljevi Paveli.- Legal Aspects of Personalized Medicine by Ulrich Becker.- Challenges of Personalized Medicine Socio-legal Disputes and Possible Solutions by Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat and Hana Horak.- Embryonic Stem Cell Patents and Personalized Medicine in the European Union by Jasmina Mutabija.- Personalised Medicine and Public Health by Vladimir Miovi, Iva Sorta Bilajac and ulija Malatestini.- Personalized Medicine and Technology Transfer by Petra Karanikic.- Economic Evaluations of Personalized Health Technologies An Overview of Emerging Issues by Ana Bobinac and Maja Vehovec.- Computational Methods for Integration of Biological Data by Vladimir Gligorijevi and Nataa Prulj.- The Role of Proteomics in Personalized Medicine by Djuro Josic and Uros Andjelkovic.- The Role of Radiology in Personalized Medicine *by Damir Mileti, *Petra Valkovi Zuji and Ronald Antulov.- Implantation of Toric Intraocular Lenses Personalized Surgery on the Lens by Iva Dekaris, Nikica Gabri, Ante Barii and Alma Bievi.- Personalized Medicine of Central Nervous System Diseases and Disorders  Looking Toward the Future by Miranda Mladini Pejatovi and Srdjan Anzic.- Personalized Medicine in Gastroenterology by Davor timac and Neven Franji.- Personalized Medicine in Clinical Pharmacology by Dinko Vitezi, Nada Boina, Jasenka Mri Peli, Viktorija Erdelji Turk and Igor Franceti.