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About Prospective Health Care Prospective Health Care is an emerging new field that seeks to address the inadequacies of the current system through a more rational approach to health care. It can be summed up by the 4 P's--Prediction, Personalization, Patient responsibility, and Prevention. Its first goal, through screening and other risk assessment tools, is to predict the diseases a patient is likely to develop in the future, based on risk factors, such as his family history, genotype, and past medical history. Then it calls for pinpointing when these diseases would be most likely to occur, as well as the sequence on interventions that would be most effective in preventing a particular disease or treating it at its earliest onset. These interventions would then be put into the form of a Personalized Health Plan, which the patient is responsible to follow with the help of a team of health care coaches. Such plans tailored to the unique characteristics of individuals will shift the focus of health care to a point in time at which diseases can be treated or prevented before intervention is futile or too expensive.
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