HIT Consultant December 9, 2025
If you ask most people to define healthcare, they’ll likely describe what happens after someone becomes sick and begins receiving care. But could healthcare begin before illness ever showed up? Rather than waiting for patients to experience symptoms, what if care started with prevention, earlier stage detection, and access to critical diagnostic tools?
Screening healthy people for a range of diseases makes early detection and intervention possible. Depending on the disease, those diagnosed before symptoms arise could potentially slow or even avoid onset. Finding diseases, like cancer, at earlier stages increases a patient’s treatment options and the likelihood of survival. By expanding screening for a range of diseases, more people would have the chance to stay healthy longer—and this shift...







