How behavioral economics can help to avoid ‘The last mile problem’ in whole genome sequencing

Failure to consider lessons from behavioral economics in the case of whole genome sequencing may cause us to run into the ‘last mile problem’ - the failure to integrate newly developed technology, on which billions of dollars have been invested, into society in a way that improves human behavior and...

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Autores principales: Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer S, McGuire, Amy L, Green, Robert C, Ubel, Peter A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4302430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25614766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-015-0132-8
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spelling pubmed-43024302015-01-23 How behavioral economics can help to avoid ‘The last mile problem’ in whole genome sequencing Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer S McGuire, Amy L Green, Robert C Ubel, Peter A Genome Med Comment Failure to consider lessons from behavioral economics in the case of whole genome sequencing may cause us to run into the ‘last mile problem’ - the failure to integrate newly developed technology, on which billions of dollars have been invested, into society in a way that improves human behavior and decision-making. BioMed Central 2015-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4302430/ /pubmed/25614766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-015-0132-8 Text en © Blumenthal-Barby et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 The licensee has exclusive rights to distribute this article, in any medium, for 12 months following its publication. After this time, the article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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