Is precision medicine Obama's Moonshot?

Today US President Obama gave some more details on his new initiative called "precision Medicine" as announced in his State of the Union. Hearing more and more about it it gives me a sense similar to JFK's Moonshot.
Start youtube as from 21:59.

Some statements and steps were very bold in my perspective and still resonate as they adhere very much to the work we have been doing over the past years.

Random order and list is not intended to be complete below. To find the complete factsheet on precision medicine over here.

1. Ambition to create more and better treatments for cancer.
2. Every dollar we spent to map the human genome has already returned $140 to our economy
3. We will create a research group of 1.000.000 volunteers with NIH (largest created ever) In 2012 we started a beta for incorporating patients in their own research that is soon going to surface and launched Medcrowdfund.
4. "most importantly we have invited patients, who have the most at stake, to join us in our effort. This aligns greatly with our work in the PatientsIncluded Act. Still needed a lot to create awareness on as i wrote in this blog in BMJ (British Medical Journal)
5. Wearables will make monitoring vital signs possible. (like i always say "for the first time every, we will be present when someone gets sick")
6. Asking entrepreneurs and non-profits to join them to create tools for patients to make better choices themselves in public private partnerships. That's the way to create an output economy in healthcare as well.
7. we have to start create a healthcare system in stead of disease-care system. That focusses on prevention as opposed of curing diseases once they happen.
8. He is committed to improve privacy.
9. To boost the modernisation of regulatory, to align with new methods, the pace and impact of current and future technology.
10. The dawn of the new era has arrived, symbolised by the patients at this event whom all stepped into research or medicine, after suffering from a condition.

I applaud President Obama for taking patients into account as of now, because THEY are the experts in HAVING the condition. Shifting this innovation from fór patients into wíth patients, maybe even driving it into BY patients sometime in the future.This is one of the key ambitions that i address in my keynotes.
I really do hope this will turn out to be his moonshot and his legacy will impact the lives of many many people.

A printable sheet is to be found at the website of the NIH and more to read in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Eric Topol, today gave his perspective on it on Medscape where he is also editor in chief