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The health monitoring technology of precision medicine improves health outcomes by tracking how the body reacts to changes in the environment, lifestyle, and medical interventions.It sounds like mere science fiction, but precision medicine is closer than you think. GETTY
The pandemic has created a need to re-examine and revitalize our current approaches to health care. A shift toward modernized systems that support the evolution of science technology is long overdue. While Canadian health care workers did an amazing job of managing the onslaught of ill patients, public health initiatives during this time completely overlooked the health of those without COVID who were isolated at home.
There’s no question that the extended period of isolation exacerbated symptoms of depression in many Canadians, especially younger communities. Isolation from social interaction and constant fears associated with an unknown virus created an unhealthy psychological environment. Yet, although it was challenging for most of us, many people came out of it with new-found inspiration to take control of their own well-being.
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.
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