In recent years there has been an unmistakable trend towards precision health, a broad, all-encompassing approach that uses innovations in technology, diagnostics, and bioinformatics to enhance disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. Molecular diagnostics approaches are now instrumental in delivering precision health to patients in many clinical areas, and their role is likely to become even more prominent in years to come.
Revolutionizing healthcare
The 'All of Us' program was established in 2015. This $215 million program is an ambitious effort launched by the US government and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to gather data from one million people “with the ultimate goal of accelerating research and improving health”. In this program, “researchers will use data from the program to learn more about how individual differences in lifestyle, environment, and biological makeup can influence health and disease (1).”
The All of Us program fits well within a broader trend of initiatives and collaborations being launched by governments, hospitals, and industry to revolutionize healthcare at a fundamental level. These projects take a multidisciplinary approach to gather, collate, and analyze data for improving population health and wellbeing. Many of them aim to contribute to delivering precision health.
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