Background and aim
While disease characteristics (phenotype) may be similar, the underlying pathophysiologiy and genetic mechanisms may differ from one person to another. These differences are relevant for diagnosis and treatment.
Further, there is an ever-growing gap between the accumulating knowledge and information and the busy clinical practitioners who are responsible for treating the patient.
Thus, our aim is to narrow the gap between the Molecular and Medical Information and the practitioner by supporting and encouraging efforts for developing and implementing bed-side tools that will assist physicians in obtaining on-line relevant and updated information at the point of care. This will improve the quality of medicine and will have an obvious clinical importance.

Looking for Collaboration and Partners
The Galil Center is part of the Technion Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, which is one of the few medical schools in the world associated with a technological institution. As such, Galil Center offers medical professionals and industries involved in medical IT or related fields the opportunity to collaborate in scientific and clinical research with the Technion's world-renowned Computer Sciences, Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Faculties.

At present, the center consists of two major research groups focused on:
Bioinformatics and Pharmacogenetics.
Electronic Medical Records and Decision Support Systems.

About the founders
The Galil Center for Telemedicine is sponsored by Uzia Galil, founder of Elron Electronics Industries, Ltd. and by the Technion's Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, where major emphasis is placed on the integration of medical sciences, technology and a humanistic approach to health care.