“One size suits all” in medicine is proven numerous drawbacks so it’s time for precision medicine. what is precision medicine?

You may hear about personalized medicine, It is the updated term for it. According to the National Research Council, there was concern that the word “personalized” could be misunderstood to mean that treatments and inhibitions are being generated uniquely for each person; in precision medicine, the central focus is on recognizing which methods will be sufficient and effective for which patients based on genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.

Medicine today is moving increasingly towards a targeted approach, even those of the same race, if they live in different countries, are exposed to different risks, so they are at risk of differing illnesses.
Hence, Modern treatment has to take into account a patient’s genes, lifestyle, environment, and conditions for diagnosis treatment planning, and prevention of disease in the future. This new medical breakthrough is called precision medicine.

Accordingly, It is a field that integrates the latest research advances into individual treatment dynamically. It seeks to provide the most tailored diagnostic tools and treatment for patients with any form of problems, from cardiac disease to diabetes to cancer. Concisely, It is the tailoring of the medical method to the individual characteristics of each case.

Precision medicine is slowly entering the mainstream of the healthcare field, but it has a goal to improve health monitoring, optimize pharmaceutical interventions, and contribute to better community health interventions. It has the potential to put his mark strongly in the healthcare field.

So as this approach has demonstrated his huge success in recently developed treatments for many diseases, president Obama has launched a precision medicine initiative to bring up closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes.

So the question will be, from where that precision medicine will put its mark?

Precision medicine will put its mark by making clinicians deal with the disease based on insights and completely change the practice of medicine.  It will catalyze new ways of using data for quality development and biopharma business models. It introduces new data models that will need to be linked to healthcare’s various current data sources and outcomes data, and will increasingly play a role in drug pricing.

Well, that looks good!! So, Let’s take, for example, cancer disease and how can precision medicine make a revolution in it?

There are many successful cancer treatments on the market but still, many patients do not fully respond to therapy or can later present with a drug-resistant metastatic disease because the way of treatment depends on the cancer subtype and stage of the disease, not every patient with his own conditions.

So, what is new with precision medicine?

The bottom line is that research in the past two decades has led to an explosion in our knowledge of cancer biology, especially cancer genomics, and in our ability to translate this ever-increasing knowledge to the benefit of patients.
One thing that has been discovered is that not all cancers of a given type are characterized by the same genetic alteration or mutation and that this provides an avenue for precision cancer medicine.

Great! let’s now how this technique will be operationalized?

Here’s the role of unified EHR. A key role of operationalizing precision medicine is the ability to access genetic test results from the clinical context, within the current workflow, whether the results are saved in the EHR which is one of HMIS functions.

According to our strong beliefs in the vital role of precision medicine, we included this in our innovative HMIS solution to help doctors in their journey with their patients, and also superior business solutions team highly recommends to include this feature in your HMIS system too.