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Editorial Bittencourt From EBM to precision health Arq Bras Cardiol. 2018; 111(6):762-763 1. Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA, 1992;268(17):2420-5. 2. Erden A. Personalized medicine. Yale J Biol Med . 2015;88(4):349 3. Nimmesgern E, Benediktsson I, Norstedt I. Personalizedmedicine in Europe. Clin Trans Sci. 2017; 10(2):61-3. References This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License newer devices such as smartphones, smartwatches and other wearables that can provide vast amounts of continuous monitoring data from each individual through exceedingly long periods of time. Finally, in order to provide truly personalized precision health, each healthcare provider will need to factor in individual patients’ preferences. This entire concept of personalized health is still at its early stages, and the exact blending of those parameters are not yet known. However, with the fast pace of experimentation allowed by studies derived for large datasets of real-life information, one can foresee this becoming routine standard of care in a not too distant future. 763