Uncertain Precision

Abstract Health care is becoming more personalized because all aspects are becoming more precise, in large part because of advances in technology. Examples include examining a person’s DNA to detect changes that cause or predispose to disease, enhanced imaging, enabling a person’s own immune cells to attack cancer, and connecting the brain directly with a computer. Many advances are supported by artificial intelligence. While new medical technologies can identify many individual traits that establish diagnoses, predict the course of illness, and recommend therapies, the tools and their results have uncertainties that the health care professional must anticipate and recognize. Uncertain Precision: Managing Health Care with Personalized Technologies provides an in-depth overview of precision medicine and its relationship with new technology, examining its current scope, benefits, and limitations.