Fortune April 3, 2019
Lloyd Minor, dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, wants to hear a little less chatter about precision medicine and a little more about “precision health.”
Precision medicine, of course, is the solution for when you’re really sick. Diagnosed with cancer? Precision medicine suggests a treatment that caters to your specific disease and your genetic makeup.
Precision health, meanwhile, is the flip side of that coin. “To predict, prevent, and cure precisely,” Minor said Wednesday at Fortune’s Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego.
The need for ultra-specific precision medicine treatments is reduced with growth of precision health, argued the academic-physician. Consider mental illness—precision health could make a difference, he said.
“Our knowledge of the science behind mental illness is...
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