P4 Medicine: How Systems Medicine Will Transform the Healthcare Sector and Society

Ten years ago, the proposition that healthcare is evolving from reactive disease care to care that is predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory was regarded as highly speculative. Today, the core elements of that vision are widely accepted and have been articulated in a series of recent reports by the US Institute of Medicine. Systems approaches to biology and medicine are now beginning to provide patients, consumers and physicians with personalized information about each individual's unique health experience of both health and disease at the molecular, cellular and organ levels. This information will make disease care radically more cost effective by personalizing care to each person's unique…

• UD
  Université du Luxembourg
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: NIH P01 NS041997, 2P50GM076547­06A, W911SR-09-C-0062