It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

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.

For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.

Medicine is incredibly ritualistic.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

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