Healthcare providers continue to seek ways to find and diagnose disease earlier and earlier in its cycle in the hopes that it can be treated more effectively.
To this end, a new firm, Predictive Medicine Centers of America, has been formed to offer hospitals, healthcare systems, multi-specialty clinics, and imaging centers a “predictive medicine program” intended to identify disease before it appears, often late in its trajectory, so that proactive interventions can be taken to treat it.
The program consists of a thorough health analysis conducted by board-certified physicians, using ultrasound, CT, MRI, and PET imaging, as well as blood, vascular, genetic, nutritional, metabolic, and hormone profiles and a comprehensive physical examination to develop an individual, long-term health management plan, according to Dallas, TX-based Predictive Medicine. A crucial part of the program is the use of next-generation, technologically advanced testing such as virtual colonoscopy.
The company will operate in a franchise model, and company executives hope that at least 5% of the nation’s 6000 hospitals will adopt the program, putting preventative healthcare in reach of 90% of U.S consumers.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
December 3, 2003
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