The P4Medicine Institute is leading the transformation of healthcare from a reactive system to one that predicts and prevents disease, and tailors diagnosis and therapy to the individual consumer. P4MI will engage patients in the active pursuit of a quantified understanding of wellness; i.e. one that is predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory (P4).

The unique approach of P4MI will leverage the technical infrastructure required to power healthcare of the future -- systems biology, informatics, clinical research, care delivery, provider engagement, and also advocate for policies that accelerate discovery, lower costs, improve health quality and address the societal and legal implications of P4 Medicine.

Characterization of the sequentially perturbed molecular networks that result in disease will also allow therapies to be developed that can arrest the progression to full illness and keep the individual healthy. Drugs developed in this way will be more effective and have fewer side effects than medicines of today.

As 'clouds' of digitized longitudinal health data emerge around the individual, advanced informatics will be able to mine this data and define individualized biosignatures. By capturing these molecular patterns for both healthy and the ill states, each consumer will become their own 'control' The notion of one size fits all medicine will be dispelled with the ability to characterize each consumer uniquely.

As applying systems approaches to biology is yielding remarkable insights and benefits, so will applying systems approaches to care delivery. Providers will become educated in new models that place the consumer at the center of care process, and delivery will become elegantly integrated into our daily lives. Care will be fun and engaging for the consumer, resulting in increased satisfaction and ownership of health and health decisions.