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July 14, 2005. Research project will collect clinical and genetic patient data for developing treatments tailored for individuals.

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek The United States isn't the only country that's pushing to make better use of IT to improve healthcare. Oracle is working with the government of Thailand in a clinical research data project that aims to ultimately help deliver "personalized" healthcare for Thai citizens.

The Thai government's new Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences' (TCELS) Pharmacogenomics Project is a collaboration with Oracle to gather patient clinical and genetic data for research projects that could aid in the development of drugs and other treatments that are tailored for individual patients based on their genomic characteristics.

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