Becker's Healthcare May 16, 2019
Baligh Yehia, MD

As the number of individuals with chronic conditions rises and consumer expectations continue to change, leaders are challenged to rethink how they impact population health and the patient experience. Precision medicine may provide a helpful framework.

Precision medicine (also called personalized medicine or individualized medicine) is an emerging approach to disease treatment and prevention that uses individual variation in genes, environment and lifestyle to target therapies and procedures. This same approach can be applied to populations. By better understanding variations within communities, organizations can target specific care models to population segments to help them achieve optimum health.

For the most part, our ambulatory care model today looks much like it has for the past several decades. While treatments and technology...

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