The cardiovascular research and clinical communities are ideally positioned to address the
epidemic of noncommunicable causes of death, as well as advance our understanding of …

Cardiac diseases form the lion's share of the global disease burden, owing to the paradigm
shift to non-infectious diseases from infectious ones. The prevalence of CVDs has nearly …

Precision medicine envisages a changed paradigm for health care through better
understanding of individual disease susceptibility and prognosis, enabling more …

Precision medicine aims to offer “the right treatment to the right patient at the right time.” In
cardiovascular medicine the potential of precision medicine applies to all stages of the …

Precision medicine can be defined as personalized medicine enhanced by technology. In
the past, medicine has, in some cases, been personalized. For example, some drugs are …

Precision medicine strives to delineate disease using multiple data sources—from genomics
to digital health metrics—in order to be more precise and accurate in our diagnoses …

So far, the digitization of health care is best exemplified by electronic medical records, which
have been far from favorably or uniformly accepted. However, properly implemented …

Ms. H. is a 35-year-old woman from Japan who has had a cough for 3 weeks. Her physician
sends her for an x-ray and CT scan that reveal an advanced lesion, which a biopsy confirms …

—Leroy Hood (1) Aphysician acquires and processes data from various sources to deliver
the most appropriate treatment. The lack of high-quality data can undermine any phase of …

Providing therapies tailored to each patient is the vision of precision medicine, enabled by
the increasing ability to capture extensive data about individual patients. In this position …