Modern Healthcare December 2, 2017
Much of the effort to develop cures using precision medicine has been for cancer patients, but an area that’s getting more attention and could have more of an impact in the long term is population health. In that arena, instead of designing care around a particular individual, patient groups with certain genetic dispositions may be targeted with a different kind of care or screening.
While there are concerns about equitable access to precision-based population healthcare, researchers are optimistic about precision medicine’s potential to make population health management more fruitful.
THE TAKEAWAY
Precision medicine largely has been about cancer care. But now some researchers are applying its concepts to population health management.
“In the future, I think precision medicine will become...
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