Publication: How behavioral economics can help to avoid ‘The last mile problem’ in whole genome sequencing
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2015
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Blumenthal-Barby, Jennifer S, Amy L McGuire, Robert C Green, and Peter A Ubel. 2015. “How behavioral economics can help to avoid ‘The last mile problem’ in whole genome sequencing.” Genome Medicine 7 (1): 3. doi:10.1186/s13073-015-0132-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-015-0132-8.
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Editorial summary 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.
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