What are the implications of being imprecise in medicine?
The 'one-size-fits-all' approach is no longer relevant for Retail, IT, Academia, Travel and Hospitality; it is also impacting Medicine paving the way for potentially remarkable changes that improve overall patient care.
- Feb 5, 2018,
- Updated Feb 20, 2018 4:15 PM IST
The phenomenon of personalization has permeated in all verticals of human life. The 'one-size-fits-all' approach is no longer relevant for Retail, IT, Academia, Travel and Hospitality; it is also impacting Medicine paving the way for potentially remarkable changes that improve overall patient care.
This personalized era of precision medicine has dawned with customized medical therapies that are provided based on individual's own measurement reading of genes. This provides a roadmap for more clarity and informed decision vs. flying blind. This rapidly evolving field is getting mainstream with centre of excellence for precision medicine being established across institutions globally.
The goals of precision medicine are simple: to offer individual patients the right medical care at the right time, by taking their genes and clinical information into account. And by understanding the patient's tumor characteristicspredict diet sources which support the treatment paradigm.
However, to bring the promise of precision in health requires a fundamental change from population based solutions to sub-population based solutions with segmentation identified by genomic and clinical attributes.
Traditionally, medicine decision has been based on pre-defined one-size-fits-all treatment strategies. In the past few years, the amount of available patient data has exploded, to the point where it has become overwhelming. To take full advantage of these breakthroughs, doctors must add a working knowledge of data and molecular biology science to the clinical sciences that have traditionally been the focus of professional training. With the help of data specialists and genomic specialists, one can assess large pools of information through the lens of the individual patient.
The phenomenon of personalization has permeated in all verticals of human life. The 'one-size-fits-all' approach is no longer relevant for Retail, IT, Academia, Travel and Hospitality; it is also impacting Medicine paving the way for potentially remarkable changes that improve overall patient care.
This personalized era of precision medicine has dawned with customized medical therapies that are provided based on individual's own measurement reading of genes. This provides a roadmap for more clarity and informed decision vs. flying blind. This rapidly evolving field is getting mainstream with centre of excellence for precision medicine being established across institutions globally.
The goals of precision medicine are simple: to offer individual patients the right medical care at the right time, by taking their genes and clinical information into account. And by understanding the patient's tumor characteristicspredict diet sources which support the treatment paradigm.
However, to bring the promise of precision in health requires a fundamental change from population based solutions to sub-population based solutions with segmentation identified by genomic and clinical attributes.
Traditionally, medicine decision has been based on pre-defined one-size-fits-all treatment strategies. In the past few years, the amount of available patient data has exploded, to the point where it has become overwhelming. To take full advantage of these breakthroughs, doctors must add a working knowledge of data and molecular biology science to the clinical sciences that have traditionally been the focus of professional training. With the help of data specialists and genomic specialists, one can assess large pools of information through the lens of the individual patient.