Nakamura R M
Department of Pathology, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
J Clin Lab Anal. 1999;13(2):49-52. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2825(1999)13:2<49::AID-JCLA1>3.0.CO;2-Z.
Future trends in healthcare delivery will focus on preventive medicine that will require integration of molecular medicine with advanced information and computer technology. Molecular medicine will shift from costly intervention and treatment of established diseases to proactive prediction and prevention of disease risks. This approach will require new informatic systems that will link large scale databanks and special programs for data mining and retrieval in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and population genetics. The clinical laboratory will soon be able to provide powerful new molecular diagnostic tools along with multianalytic assays for expression of genes and proteins in different patterns of diseases, disease progression, and predisposition to diseases.
医疗保健服务的未来趋势将聚焦于预防医学，这需要将分子医学与先进的信息和计算机技术相结合。分子医学将从对已确诊疾病的昂贵干预和治疗，转向对疾病风险的主动预测和预防。这种方法将需要新的信息系统，这些系统将连接大规模数据库以及用于生物信息学、化学信息学和群体遗传学中数据挖掘和检索的特殊程序。临床实验室很快就能提供强大的新型分子诊断工具，以及针对不同疾病模式、疾病进展和疾病易感性的基因和蛋白质表达的多分析检测。
