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Personalized Health Care

The Personalized Health Care Initiative will improve the safety, quality and effectiveness of healthcare for every patient in the US.  By using “genomics”, or the identification of genes and how they relate to drug treatment, personalized health care will enable medicine to be tailored to each person’s needs. 

Healthcare that is proactive, instead of reactive, gives the patient the opportunity to become more involved in their own wellness.  The US Department of Health and Human Services seeks to advance this Initiative through two guiding principles:

  • Provide federal leadership supporting research addressing individual aspects of disease and disease prevention with the ultimate goal of shaping preventive and diagnostic care to match each person’s unique genetic characteristics.

  • Create a “network of networks” to aggregate anonymous health care data to help researchers establish patterns and identify genetic “definitions” to existing diseases.