The future of precision medicine part 4: diagnosing the diagnostic problem

Amid the excitement around the potential new treatment approaches that precision medicine may yield it is important not to lose sight of the vital pre-condition before any treatment can be selected and applied—the effective and accurate diagnosis of the underlying condition.

There was broad consensus among the speakers at both the Westminster Health Forum (WHF) in December 2017 and the World Economic Forum (WEF) in January 2018, that the development of precision treatments must be complemented by the development of precision diagnostics.