E-health. Towards 5P medicine: personalized, precise, preventive, predictive and participatory medicine

Abstract

The incorporation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) into health care systems, as well as innovations in genomics, biotechnology and nanotechnology, are revolutionizing the way people’s health is promoted and how they are predicted. they prevent and treat diseases. So-called “mobile health” has the potential to participate in the transformation of health care and to increase its quality and effectiveness. It is not intended to replace health professionals, but is a supportive tool for the management and delivery of health care. The development of new information and communication technologies (5G, IPv6, cloud, cyber-security, big data, and artificial intelligence) can enable personalized, accurate, preventive, predictive, and participatory medicine (“medicine 5P”). All this will allow the diagnosis and therapeutic or preventive measures to be adapted in a more individualized way. Moreover, the digitization of medicine, through the Internet of Things (IOC) and, in particular, wearables, it allows the patient himself to be in the leading role by putting his health information permanently in the hands of the health professionals and at the same time participating in the control of his health (self-control).