precision medicine focuses on establishing the most accurate picture of an individual’s history and state of health to develop personalized recommendations and interventions for them. this is followed by the use of digital wearable devices that provide constant reporting of various patient metrics such as activity, heart rate, blood glucose and sleep data to assess the effectiveness of the interventions and to make adjustments as needed to ensure the patient meets their health goals.
it is important to remember that every body is different — not everyone will have the same responsiveness to the same treatments. precision medicine aims to correct this by keeping the patient — and their individual needs — at the centre.
the mechanics of precision medicine
to establish the most accurate health picture of the individual, precision medicine uses advanced health monitoring technology. consider the rise in popularity of health devices such as the apple watch, oura ring, and continuous glucose monitoring (cgm) devices, which give us a unique opportunity to monitor our biometrics 24/7. the information that these devices gather can be overwhelming for many people and is rarely utilized to its full potential. but by integrating data from continuous health monitoring devices with multi-omic (genome, proteome, transcriptome, epigenome, metabolome, and microbiome) clinical tests, we can obtain a detailed snapshot of a patient’s state of health, and gain a better understanding of how their body reacts to changes in the environment, lifestyle, and medical interventions.