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Aging Well: Using Precision to Drive Down Costs and Increase Health Quality.

ABSTRACT: Efforts to provide patients with individualized treatments have led to tremendous breakthroughs in healthcare. However, a precision medicine approach alone will not offset the rapid increase in prevalence and burden of chronic non-communicable illnesses that is continuing to pervade the world's aging population. With rapid advances in technology, it is now possible to collect digital metrics to assess, monitor and detect chronic disease indicators, much earlier in the disease course, potentially redefining what was previously considered asymptomatic to pre-symptomatic. Data science and artificial intelligence can drive the discovery of digital biomarkers before the emergence of overt clinical symptoms, thereby transforming the current healthcare approach from one centered on precision medicine to a more comprehensive focus on precision health, and by doing so enable the possibility of preventing disease altogether. Presented herein are the challenges to the current healthcare model and the proposition of first steps for reversing the prevailing intractable trend of rising healthcare costs and poorer health quality.

SUBMITTER: Au R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6656386 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Aging Well: Using Precision to Drive Down Costs and Increase Health Quality.

Au Rhoda R Ritchie Marina M Hardy Spencer S Ang Ting Fang Alvin TFA Lin Honghuang H

Advances in geriatric medicine and research 20190605

Efforts to provide patients with individualized treatments have led to tremendous breakthroughs in healthcare. However, a precision medicine approach alone will not offset the rapid increase in prevalence and burden of chronic non-communicable illnesses that is continuing to pervade the world's aging population. With rapid advances in technology, it is now possible to collect digital metrics to assess, monitor and detect chronic disease indicators, much earlier in the disease course, potentially ...[more]

PMID: 31342014

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