A GLOBAL ELECTRONIC MEDICINE RESPONSE PROFILE TESTING NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to healthcare management and specifically to an Internet-facilitated method of improving and applying knowledge to how the genetic make-up of a person affects their response to drug therapy. More particularly, the invention provides a method of using biological markers for the development and prescribing of medicines, such method comprising the steps of obtaining a biological sample from a patient; delivering the sample to a centralized analysis and storage facility; genotyping the sample at the facility, electronically providing the genotype analysis back to said patient upon request by said patient or said patient's healthcare provider in order to enable said healthcare provider to form a judgement as to the most appropriate drug to administer to said patient in view of said patient's genotype; contemporaneously electronically providing the genotype analysis to a peer review body for data analysis and then transmitting such analyzed data to a database so as to enable discovery of one or more associations between a given genotype and a given response to a given drug.