Hurdles Remain in Moving Precision Medicine Into Doctors’ Offices

Moving discoveries from the NIH’s project to advance the targeted treatments known as precision medicine into everyday medical practice remains a challenge, the agency’s chief said.

The All of Us Research Program is the National Institutes of Health’s ambitious plan to create one of the world’s richest and most diverse research data sets by collecting the health information of at least a million volunteers. “This is pretty transformational,” NIH Director Francis S. Collins said Oct. 24. “This is a bold effort.”

A lot of people who are signing up for All of Us are doing so through their health-care provider ...