The Preemptive Medicine after the Advanced Medicine and Healthcare Services

Abstract

This paper illustrates an outline of a comparison of “the advanced healthcare services (Senshin-iryo), the advanced medicine (Senatan-iryo), and the preemptive medicine.” First, the differences between the three technologies were explained, and in II), some medico-technological elements of “the Senshin-iryo” without the clear-cut definition were confirmed by the category analysis. In III), both “the Sentan-iryo” and “the Senshin-iryo” are 〈medical fashions〉 meaning a mode of medicines is always changeable, and merely follow the conventional preventive medicine. In IV), the concrete image of the preemptive medicine is shown likely as the “lifestyle-related diseases (Seikatsu-shukan-byo)” and its gap between the promises and the results. V) So, can it become or not a utopia the near future decorated with the individual use of predictive technology and digital health？ It depends on whether each individual obediently accepts IT-guided health discourse as it is, or whether he/she enhances medical literacy as much as possible and autonomically examines and selects it.