Precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person.
DNA
In addition to DNA analysis, precision medicine examines the patient’s phenotype and how the patient interacts with his or her environment.
“It is the role of IT, politicians, healthcare professionals, insurance companies, and society as a whole to work together to make precision medicine the standard of care. Human lives are at stake.”