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    Telehealth and Precision Prevention: Bridging the Gap for Individualised Health Strategies
    (Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2024-08-01) Lau ECH; Rajput VK; Hunter I; Florez-Arango JF; Ranatunga P; Veil KD; Kulatunga G; Gogia S; Kuziemsky C; Ito M; Iqbal U; John S; Iyengar S; Ramachandran A; Basu A
    INTRODUCTION: Precision prevention has shown an upsurge in popularity among epidemiologists in both developed and developing countries in the past decade. OBJECTIVES: Initially practiced in oncology, this approach is increasingly adopted in public health to guard against other common non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It aims to tailor preventive measures according to each individual's unique characteristics, such as genomic data, socio-demographic features, environmental factors, and cultural background. METHODS: Healthcare information technologies, including telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI), have served as a vital catalyst in the expansion of this field in the past decade. Under this framework, real-time contemporaneous clinical data is collected via a wide range of digital health devices, such as telehealth monitors, wearables, etc., and then analyzed by AI or non-AI prediction models, which then generate preventive recommendations. RESULTS: The utilization of telehealth technologies in the precision prevention of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) is a very illustrative application. This paper explores these topics as well as certain limitations and unintended consequences (UICs) and outlines telehealth as a core enabler of precision prevention as well as public health.