Personalised Medicine: Unleash the Power of Health Data

For healthcare organisations, digitisation opens a world of new opportunities to generate and deliver value. The era of unparalleled digital connection is offering everyone—patient, healthcare professional, and provider—greater access to health information, and driving monumental innovations in medical research and technology. One of the most important areas digital healthcare is unlocking is a personalised approach to healthcare, or personalised medicine.

How personalised medicine is changing the game

In most typical situations, without the ability to predict an individual’s treatment success for most conditions, clinicians are pushed to follow a non-optimal trial-and-error approach in prescribing treatment options. For example, a patient with consistent high blood pressure symptoms might be placed on one of several blood pressure drugs based on generic information. Drugs are developed and tested for the average patient with a particular disease.