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Precision medicine is a tailored approach to health, incorporating an individual’s genetic make-up, environment and lifestyle, and is a new frontier offering much promise for disease prevention and cure.

Despite the clinical benefits of genomics, the uptake in the clinic and bedside for patient care to access publicly funded new diagnostics and therapies is far from equitable or routine in Australia. Many challenges and barriers are known, with others yet to be documented.

Genomic medicine and its contribution to precision medicine presents a unique set of challenges to a health system trying to keep up with the fast pace of advances over the past decade.

To ensure effective models of genomic care are created, there is an urgent need for local hospital and health service and state-based genomic medicine implementation research.

This MJA perspective shares more.

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1. Explain key factors contributing to the uptake in Australia of precision medicine.
2. List the benefits and barriers to the implementation of precision medicine into health care.
3. Define implementation science.
4. List the key elements of implementation science.
5. Explain how implementation science approaches could address barriers to the implementation of precision medicine.

Authors: Rosie O'Shea, Alan S Ma, Robyn V Jamieson and Nicole M Rankin

Type: Perspective