In my discussion this week I spoke about artificial intelligence. How would you compare/contrast personalized care and personalized/precision medicine?

 

 In most cases, personalized care and precision medicine are utilized interchangeably, yet they

have differences. According to the National Research Council (2010), personalized medicine

refers to an individualized treatment that suits a definite patient. In contrast, precision medicine

is termed as modifying disease handling and prevention concerning different factors like

environment, genes, and lifestyle of individual people. Precision medicine is more generalizable

to groups of people existing in the same ecological set up who have similarities in their

characteristics, while personalized medicine targets developing treatments for every individual

patient.

While personalized medicine embarks on using data and genomics to develop treatments for

certain groups, precision medicine seeks to establish customized treatments for each distinctive

patient. Bresnick, 2018 supports that the field of artificial intelligence has used computerized

systems that have aided in tailoring drugs that meet every patient's specifications, taking into

consideration every distinctive feature. In terms of benefits, precision medicine is promising in

improving health and healthcare features compared with the less effective personalized care,

which may not apply to all cases. Researchers have devoted efforts in exploiting the promising

precision medicine by utilizing computerized techniques in developing efficient medications that

treat illnesses specific to every individual; on the contrary, they have overlooked the concept of

personalized care, which is amorphous and less reliable.