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The United States performs poorly on some broad measures of health compared to other developed nations. Precision Health delivers value by focusing on ways to both improve outcomes and cut costs. These two goals can be achieved in tandem. Precision Health seeks to lower costs through early detection, prevention, accurate risk assessment, and efficiencies in care delivery.

Precision Health applies to people of all ages, and it’s an attempt to understand all the different trajectories of life. But the health care of children, coupled with maternal and fetal health, are given special emphasis, since they are at the beginning of life’s trajectory. Mothers have an extraordinary influence on the future life of their children—and that influence begins even before they become pregnant. New technologies and new approaches are being used to look at pregnancy in entirely new ways. Everything we learn becomes part of large data sets to create a comprehensive picture of pregnancy. We can then extract information for the purpose of predicting—and preventing—certain outcomes.