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Precision Health is focused on empowering individuals to monitor their own health. It breaks with the long‐standing practice of people interacting with the medical system sporadically (the annual “check‐up”)—or when driven by illness or disease. Patients and their families get involved in the care delivery experience through practices such as continuous monitoring (as in the example provided in the scenario above). A rough parallel comes from the way in which financial institutions use algorithms to monitor their customers’ spending. If there’s suspicious activity, customers may be contacted and asked to confirm certain transactions. We are getting to a point where technologies can do the same monitoring of our bodies, and immediately alert us—or our health care team—if something is amiss.