Our Vision for Tomorrow’s Health
Tomorrow’s Health Provides Cutting Edge Laboratory Testing Capabilities
Tomorrow’s Health was started in 2020 to fill the critical need for rapid and accurate COVID-19 PCR testing in the Tri-Cities area. Even during our busiest times, results have always been turned around within the same day or the next day.
Since then, we have expanded our menu to include many of the standard blood tests available. We offer a variety of panels including those that evaluate general health, men’s health, women’s health, cardiovascular health, thyroid function, diabetes, anemia, and more! We offer all of our tests as direct-to-consumer – you can order your own test, you do not need to get a doctor’s order!
Tomorrow’s Health is working on developing a next generation sequencing (NGS) menu of tests as well. We are currently able to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 genome to detect variants, and we are working on a respiratory pathogen panel that can detect hundreds of potential pathogens while evaluating over a thousand antibiotic resistance markers.
Our Vision for Tomorrow's Health
We believe that clinical and laboratory medicine must revolutionize the way they do business and vastly improve the care they provide for their patients. To facilitate this, we hope to:
- Continue development of NGS technologies to diagnose infectious diseases, mitigate ongoing pandemics, and preventing future pandemics
- Facilitate whole genome sequencing and interpretation for the purposes of preventative and precision medicine.
- Facilitate increased involvement of patients in their healthcare by providing direct-to-consumer testing on all fronts
Tomorrow’s Health was started in 2020 to fill the critical need for rapid and accurate COVID-19 PCR testing in the Tri-Cities area. Even during our busiest times, results have always been turned around within the same day or the next day.
Since then, we have expanded our menu to include many of the standard blood tests available. We offer a variety of panels including those that evaluate general health, men’s health, women’s health, cardiovascular health, thyroid function, diabetes, anemia, and more! We offer all of our tests as direct-to-consumer – you can order your own test, you do not need to get a doctor’s order!
Tomorrow’s Health is working on developing a next-generation sequencing (NGS) menu of tests as well. We are currently able to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 genome to detect variants, and we are working on a respiratory pathogen panel that can detect hundreds of potential pathogens while evaluating over a thousand antibiotic resistance markers.
Our History
Brent House is the Founder of Tomorrow’s Health. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy early in 2008, and worked in malaria vaccine and drug development at the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) in Bethesda, Maryland. Tomorrow’s Health was born out of a conference he attended on the use of human genetic information to help medical professionals make drug treatment information. One of the speakers predicted that within 5 years, the cost to sequence an entire human genome would dip below $1,000.
It was at this point that the vision came to his mind. He imagined a patient going into their clinic, where the clinic not only possessed the patient’s medical history, but also his/her entire genome sequence. The patient’s medical providers would then use the genome sequence to “personalize” the patient’s medical care. As new research became available, it could immediately be applied to each patient’s known genome sequence. This would allow continuous real-time updates of each patient’s “personalized” medical record.
He added to his vision over time the importance of the “personalized” practice of medicine and that it should be focused on preventive (vice reactive) measures. Though the information within the genome certainly can be used in typical reactive medicine, the benefits will more completely be realized in preventive practices.
He knew at the time that it was too early to begin this type of business, but determined that he would start it up when the time was right. That time is now!
