Precision Health

Healthcare providers have never been closer to achieving the goal of delivering precision health. Where most medical therapies are designed with the average patient in mind, precision health aims to deliver a highly personalized course of treatment based on a patient’s genetic makeup, health history, family medical history and lifestyle choices. By using healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) applications to better understand, monitor and predict a patient’s health journey, precision health can help with disease prevention and when diseases occur, enable clinicians to make more informed treatment decisions. The key to the success of precision health is the use of healthcare AI technologies that can analyze massive sets of health data and distill actionable insight for the care of individual patients. 

Precision health relies on big data to address disease prevention and detection by analyzing a multitude of factors, in the hope of helping maintain patient health or more effectively treat a patient’s disease.

Precision health leverages large databases of anonymized patient records and images to help clinicians and researchers across medical disciplines to:

• Determine the best course of treatment for each individual patient based on their health history and genome.
• Identify genetic factors that may cause disease in patients that are currently undiagnosed.
• Identify potential patient risk factors to help guide lifestyle and environmental choices, with the goal to maintain or improve patient health.

To support precision health initiatives, healthcare organizations need powerful and versatile IT solutions to successfully integrate, aggregate and analyze data from disparate sources and databases, and convert that data into actionable information to provide clinicians with greater insight into the health journey of each patient.

What is precision health?

Precision health is an approach to preventing and treating disease that considers a patient’s genetic makeup, health history, family history and environment and lifestyle to develop a personalized health plan for each patient.

 

What are the benefits of precision health?

Precision health focuses on predicting what diseases are most likely to occur in a patient, establishing recommendations for prevention and, when diseases do occur, developing personalized therapies that are more likely to successfully treat the patient.

 

What technology is required for precision health?

Precision health technologies leverage access to massive sets of data to help clinicians understand the specificity of a patient and deliver highly personalized care.