What Does Precision Medicine Mean?
In this video, Eric Green, MD, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, explains the various meanings behind precision medicine and how it tailors healthcare to the individual.
Transcript
Precision medicine is phraseology that has come up recently which is largely
synonymous with phrases you'll hear like individualized medicine, personalized medicine. Which I think just attempts to capture information
about individuals and using that for tailoring their medical care. Now I come from a genomics background.
The phrase we use in a more specific way is genomic medicine, capitalizing on genomic information as a means to tailor medical care.
When you broaden it beyond genomics to other individual attributes and exposures and things
like lifestyle and diet, then you get into a wider framing of precision medicine, individualized medicine.
And more recently being framed around this Precision Medicine Initiative.
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