Healthcare IT News: Personalized Medicine

Personalized medicine is a subset of telehealth that deals with disease treatment and prevention, taking into consideration individual characteristics of patients such as gene variability, environment, lifestyle, response to treatment, etc. It is based upon the idea that some conditions (like cancer and heart diseases) are not similar in all individuals and therefore require a different treatment approach in every patient. Personalized medicine is essential for making healthcare more precise, predictable, powerful, and customized for every patient. Therefore, it is one of the promising approaches for tackling diseases that have so far evaded effective treatments or cures.