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Modern medicine is more advanced than ever, yet clinical care still leans heavily on what is, in practice, informed guesswork. Doctors make the most probable diagnosis, select the therapy most likely to help, and adjust only when outcomes fall short. To further complicate matters, one-half of patients with chronic diseases do not take their medications as prescribed.
Precision medicine offers a more dependable path forward. Instead of guesswork, a patient’s care is informed by an individual’s unique genomic and clinical profile rather than population averages. Add in the power of AI to interpret this complexity at scale, and personalized, evidence-driven treatment will be the emerging standard.
How does precision medicine work?
Precision medicine tailors treatments and prevention strategies to the unique characteristics of each person. A simple analogy is a recruitment system that matches a candidate to a job based on specific education, experience, and skills to ensure the best possible fit.