Precision health refers to a comprehensive approach to healthcare delivery, which tailors care to a patient’s unique circumstances. Precision health uses an individual’s multiple omics profiles (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, etc.) and linked phenotypic data (clinical, lifestyle, environmental) to provide tailored healthcare, optimizing diagnostic and therapeutic strategies while mitigating adverse reactions. While evidence supports the improvements in patient care and savings to healthcare systems with an increased access to genetic testing, in the western Canadian provinces the broad adoption and implementation is currently limited.
