Comments on: Insurance is dead. Long live insurance. http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/ Thu, 17 May 2012 20:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Biology and Zoology http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/#comment-46 Biology and Zoology Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:09:15 +0000 http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/#comment-46 <strong>Biology and Zoology...</strong> I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting... Biology and Zoology…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: Eye on DNA Headlines for 26 August 2007 http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/#comment-13 Eye on DNA Headlines for 26 August 2007 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:55:39 +0000 http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/#comment-13 [...] August 23rd issue looks at genetics, medicine and insurance in Do Not Ask or Do Not Answer? Misha and I picked up on the same paragraph that said those who tested positive for the APOE4 gene linked [...] […] August 23rd issue looks at genetics, medicine and insurance in Do Not Ask or Do Not Answer? Misha and I picked up on the same paragraph that said those who tested positive for the APOE4 gene linked […]

]]> By: Jason Bobe http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/#comment-10 Jason Bobe Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:28:05 +0000 http://genomeboy.com/2007/08/23/insurance-is-dead-long-live-insurance/#comment-10 Hi Misha - You said: "Not long ago, I interviewed my own physician. I asked her if she had any wisdom for me given that I would soon have my genome sequence made public." I say: We need to scale-up this approach. I had a long (good long, not bad long) meeting with <a href="http://www.pged.org/" rel="nofollow">Dana</a> today. One of the items on the agenda was to discuss the genome sequencing "entrance exam", where a person can evaluate their preparedness for pursuing a personal genome sequence. The question is: What should go on that exam? In order to make it as robust as possible initially, we need to crowd-source expertise. For example, ask 10 physicians, 10 geneticists, 10 GCs, 10 policy-wonks, 10 ethicists, 10 legal scholars etc. "10" is an arbitrary number of course. And this effort would be only to support the initial push...then we make it public, open source and let it evolve (and fork) as we humans and the world changes. If you've got names of people to recommend, drop me a line. More articulated details later. Jason Hi Misha -

You said:

“Not long ago, I interviewed my own physician. I asked her if she had any wisdom for me given that I would soon have my genome sequence made public.”

I say:

We need to scale-up this approach. I had a long (good long, not bad long) meeting with Dana today. One of the items on the agenda was to discuss the genome sequencing “entrance exam”, where a person can evaluate their preparedness for pursuing a personal genome sequence.

The question is: What should go on that exam? In order to make it as robust as possible initially, we need to crowd-source expertise. For example, ask 10 physicians, 10 geneticists, 10 GCs, 10 policy-wonks, 10 ethicists, 10 legal scholars etc. “10″ is an arbitrary number of course. And this effort would be only to support the initial push…then we make it public, open source and let it evolve (and fork) as we humans and the world changes.

If you’ve got names of people to recommend, drop me a line. More articulated details later.

Jason

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