title: Prospective health care: the second transformation of medicine.
abstract: Emerging scientific technologies provide rich sources of predictive biomarkers, which could transform health care. Identification of causal biomarkers will enable the development of tools to quantify risk and anticipate disease. Accurate health risk analysis is rapidly becoming feasible, so health care can become rational, preventive and personalized.
authors.affiliation: Duke University Medical Center, DUMC 3059, Durham, NC 27710, USA. ralph.snyderman@duke.edu
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Snyderman
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Langheier
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012586:Science / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers