Personalized medicine is one of the most promising areas within science and medicine. It is widely expected to catalyze the health system by enabling a new approach to health that examines each individual's make up and designs tailored strategies for maintaining health and treating illness. The shift to a personalized medicine model will result in enormous benefits, including earlier disease detection, more effective treatment, a reduction in health care costs and an overall evolution in health care from disease treatment to wellness and prevention.
Personalized medicine starts by sifting through a patient’s individual molecular blueprint. With that, scientists have the ability to understand that patient’s unique predispositions. A physician can help that patient avoid specific environmental exposures to prevent the onset of disease, and screen the patient regularly for disease. If diagnosed, the patient receives the right treatment at the right time in order to achieve optimal medical outcomes.
The application of personalized medicine, based on the aggressive translation of new discoveries, has the potential to reduce or eliminate the burden of chronic diseases such as cancer, neurological disease, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Ignite is the first personalized medicine entity built from the ground up to allow the rapid application of personalized medicine in the community health setting. It is at the community level where most Americans receive care and where medicine needs to be more personalized, efficient and effective.
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