Center for Research on Prospective Health Care, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Biotechnol J. 2012 Aug;7(8):973-9. doi: 10.1002/biot.201100297. Epub 2011 Dec 16.
The practice of medicine stands at the threshold of a transformation from its current focus on the treatment of disease events to an emphasis on enhancing health, preventing disease and personalizing care to meet each individual's specific health needs. Personalized health care is a new and strategic approach that is driven by personalized health planning empowered by personalized medicine tools, which are facilitated by advances in science and technology. These tools improve the capability to predict health risks, to determine and quantify the dynamics of disease development, and to target therapeutic approaches to the needs of the individual. Personalized health care can be implemented today using currently available technologies and know-how and thereby provide a market for the rational introduction of new personalized medicine tools. The need for early adoption of personalized health care stems from the necessity to reduce the egregious and wasteful burden of preventable chronic diseases, which is not effectively addressed by our current approach to care.
医学实践正处于从当前关注疾病事件的治疗向强调增进健康、预防疾病和个性化护理以满足每个人特定健康需求的转变的门槛。个性化医疗是一种新的战略方法，它由个性化健康规划驱动，由个性化医疗工具提供支持，而这些工具又得益于科学技术的进步。这些工具提高了预测健康风险、确定和量化疾病发展动态以及针对个人需求确定治疗方法的能力。个性化医疗保健可以利用当前可用的技术和专业知识来实施，从而为合理引入新的个性化医疗工具提供了市场。早期采用个性化医疗保健的必要性源于减少可预防的慢性疾病的严重和浪费性负担的需要，而我们目前的护理方法并没有有效地解决这一问题。
