This think piece provides a high-level overview of Personalised Medicine and its potential impact on future healthcare.
In the near future, improving understanding of the genomic basis of disease and our ability to more quickly and cheaply sequence the human genome will cause a significant evolution in the medical paradigm.
Personalised/Precision/Genomic medicine (for simplicity, PM) may be thought of as the delivery of the right drug (or intervention) in the right dose to the right person at the right time, based on each individual’s personal genetic and disease characteristics.