Digital Health August 16, 2019
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced a radical change to NHS health checks, as it launches a review to explore how analytics and data-driven technologies can deliver personalised health advice to patients.
The “new look” NHS health checks intend to make prevention and treatment much more effective by looking at whether tailored programmes that take age, genetics and socioeconomic factors into account can more effectively prevent disease.
The changes are part of a wider shift from “blanket approaches” to public health, toward a modernised, future-proof system that takes risk or personal choices into account, harnessing the latest technologies.
Drawing on developments in cancer treatment – the most advanced area of personalised medicine in terms of detection...
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