Predictive, Preventive and Precision Medicine: The Future of Healthcare

Medical field is rapidly undergoing, a paradigm shift in the way the future healthcare will be delivered. The million -dollar question is, are we ready to embrace these changes? Are our medical colleges, and various medical departments ready to accept, learn new things, assimilate, and develop integrated healthcare? We keep hearing discussions about a new systems approach, to disease diagnosis and management, “Predictive, Preventive, and Personalized or Precision Medicine.” It sounds very impressive, high-powered, and doable. How do we go about incorporating these buzz words, into a real-time practice of medicine? What we are talking about is, development of capacity to predict the early onset of a disease, or a risk factor or clusters of risk factors, for a disease, develop appropriate preventive strategies, and integrate available technologies, to deliver a personalized, precision medicine.

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