Why genomics & bioinformatics will matter to medtech companies

What do we mean by precision medicine?

Precision medicine (sometimes ‘personalised’ or ‘genomic’ medicine) is an emerging approach to preventing, treating and managing an individual’s medical treatment by focusing on the genetic causes of disease rather than a patient’s symptomatic consequences. It is based primarily on DNA sequencing technologies which are becoming ever cheaper and faster, while also considering the individual’s symptoms, biochemical and imaging metrics as well as other environmental and lifestyle factors. By focusing on genetic causes of disease, precision medicine is designed to avoid potentially vague or misleading symptoms by determining the exact piece of DNA that is the disease source.

Why precision medicine matters to medtech companies

By focusing patient assessments on distinct disease causes, therapy can be tailored to the biological functions that are going wrong. Billions are now aimed at designing.