Personalized. All the above will result in a healthcare that is personalized. Rather than the routine, generic prescribing of vaccine schedule, medications or other treatment modalities, enough information will be available about a person to permit customizing healthcare by time, dose and method of application, rather than a single schedule or dose into which every person must fit.

This may seem like a rather sweeping and expensive change that is unattainable. However, today vast reams of information are acquired and monitored on nearly everything you purchase through the use of the ubiquitous bar code, which appears on most every item you purchase. Not only is the information about the item (brand, cost, etc) encoded in the bar code, but a single swipe of the bar code reader at the checkout counter automatically provides appropriate discounts, updates inventory, analyzes buying habits, and a dozen other functions. Just as the innocent little bar code is a gateway into an entire world and process of information management for purchase, distribution and sale of goods, so to will the micro-sensors, genetic profiling, informatics, etc be the tools to enable the 5 P’s of healthcare.