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Precision medicine or precision health, also called personalized medicine, helps medical professionals find an individual’s unique disease risks and treatments based on his unique biology and life circumstances. Precision Health focuses on predicting, preventing, and curing disease before it strikes.

This approach is a fundamental shift to care that empowers people and allows doctors and researchers across medical disciplines to determine the best care for each individual patient; identify disease mutations in patients with undiagnosed conditions. It also helps avoid serious side effects from medications and takes into consideration genetic risk factors.

To provide personal, comprehensive, and effective care, precision health starts with a comprehensive consultation where the current health status, medical and family history, personal health objectives, etc are discussed. With this biometrics, and other functional and physical examination is done to diagnose any diseases or conditions, and to identify their root causes. Comprehensive lab tests are also done and detailed results are studied to gain an even better understanding of the patient’s health profile.

Precision healthcare providers then develop an exhaustive plan customized to the patient’s unique needs. The medical plan addresses the current disease or illness, the root cause of the disease, and reversing any factors that give rise to the disease. Drivers of imbalances in the body’s biological systems, physiological processes, assimilation of nutrients, inflammation or energy production, etc are also taken care of. Multimodal strategies concerning lifestyle factors like diet, nutrition, exercise, and stress management are also adopted to optimize health and improve a patient’s health Regular monitoring is also done to assess progress and evaluate the effectiveness of the care plan. A full reassessment of each patient is also done yearly like a physical and functional exam, biometric measurements, and lab tests.

Precision medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) working together might completely transform the medical industry. Precision medicine techniques isolate patient phenotypes with less frequent responses to therapy or particular medical requirements. Through the use of complex computing and inference, AI helps to develop insights, allows the system to reason and learn, and enhances clinical decision-making. Recent literature suggests that translational research examining this convergence will aid in resolving the most challenging issues facing precision medicine, particularly those where nongenomic and genomic determinants will facilitate personalized diagnosis and prognostication along with data from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyles.

Verily, a subsidiary of Alphabet is using a data-driven approach to change the way people manage their health and the way healthcare is delivered. Launched from X in 2015, Verily relies on the increasing ability to use the power of technology to create new tools to generate evidence, new infrastructure to handle data, and new business models that can deliver on the promise of precision health. It generates and activates data from a wide variety of sources, including clinical, social, behavioral, and the real world, to arrive at the best solutions for a person based on a comprehensive view of the evidence. The company for this uses its recognized expertise and capabilities in technology, data science, and healthcare to enable the entire healthcare ecosystem to drive better health outcomes.

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