Health Affairs February 1, 2021
There is growing interest in a concept called “precision health,” which focuses on preventing disease before it starts, using the latest technological advances to develop the tools to do so. In a new book, Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being, Lloyd Minor (dean of the School of Medicine at Stanford University) and Matthew Rees (president of Geonomica) lay out a far-reaching and insightful vision for precision health. They describe a holistic approach that will help keep people healthy by personalizing the prevention and treatment of individuals “precisely.” Precision health complements what has been called “precision medicine,” but with a greater emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention and on leveraging technological advances in data...
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