Drug Industry Bets Big On Precision Medicine: Five Trends Shaping Care Delivery

Precision medicine promises a paradigm shift in care delivery, one that removes the need for guesswork, variable diagnoses and treatment strategies based on generalized demographics. Precision medicine approaches are enabled by data leveraged from direct and indirect sources to provide a more holistic view of an individual patient. Applying precision medicine into mainstream clinical workflow will eventually facilitate more predictive and preventive care by bringing better targeted therapies. By augmenting the process for differential diagnosis, clinicians can mitigate many of the inefficiencies that currently encumber care optimization. Those inefficiencies such as false positives, false negatives, unnecessary treatments and over- or under-medication all have financial and quality-of-care ramifications.