The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

A lot of the diagnosis and monitoring functions will be done through little devices - smartphones - by the patient with computer assistance. So it's a real big change in the model of how we render healthcare.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.