• Precision health comes from the idea that physicians should be focusing on preventing disease rather than treating it after the fact.
• Precision medicine aims to individualize healthcare. In other words, precision medicine is the idea of providing the right medicine to the right person at the right time.
• One of the most common examples of this has been happening even before this initiative was launched: blood transfusion. When preparing to give a patient blood transfusion, the
physician checks a patient’s blood type and match it to a donor.
• The goal of precision medicine is to treat diseases and disorders based on each person’s genetic fingerprint, environment, and lifestyle.
• Magnetic resonance (MR) and molecular imaging technologies now use imaging genomics and AI, among many other tools, to help other disciplines align to precision medicine.
