Personalized medicine is a medical model proposing the customization of healthcare, with all decisions and practices being tailored to individual patients in whatever ways possible by use of genetic or other information to select and optimize that patient's preventative and therapeutic care.
Personalized medicine is a medical model emphasizing in general the customization of healthcare, with all decisions and practices being tailored to individual patients in whatever ways possible. Recently, this has mainly involved the systematic use of genetic or other information about an individual patient to select or optimize that patient's preventative and therapeutic care.