Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Right Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

I am honored to be speaking today to Lloyd Minor, the Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Dean Minor has a new book out called Discovering Precision Health.

And if you are interested in health tech at all, especially if you

are interested in trying your hand at a health tech startup, this is required reading.

And for the rest of us, it's also a great primer on how tech is about to transform health and what we can hopefully look forward to as tech finally, again hopefully, disrupts the health care space in a positive way.

Lloyd, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today.

Because of the nature of what we talk about on the show every day,

we're going to talk a lot about, you know, health tech

and disruption in the health care space.

But before we do that, I wonder if you could just outline

the basic thesis of your book.

The book, we'll talk about it again at the end but it's

discovering precision health. So what is precision health and why do you think we

should be on the cusp of seeing it brought to fruition.

Thank you Brian. It's a pleasure to be with you today.

Precision Health is about keeping us healthy.

When we're sick, when we have cancer or heart disease, we want

precision medicine, we want the very best sick care individualized to us. But

shouldn't we really be trying to keep ourselves healthier for a longer period of time?

So precision health is about predicting, preventing, and curing disease precisely.

In particular, it's about placing a lot more emphasis on the science and on the

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