Healthcare IT News: Precision Medicine

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