A New Term, Scientific Wellness, Used to Describe Direction of Healthcare

There has been lots of jargon arising in recent years in relating to the future direction of healthcare. Terms that have been introduced includepersonalized medicine,precision medicine,personal genomics, anddigital health. I want to comment briefly on a recent article that suggested that the term scientific wellness may be useful in this regard (see: The future of personalized health is scientific wellness). Below is an excerpt from it:The convergence of personalized medicine with digital health and artificial intelligence, systems biology, social networks, big data analytics and precision medicine is on the cusp of enabling an emerging field: scientific wellness.“Over the next 10-15 years there will be a scientific wellness industry in contrast to the disease industry and the market cap will far exceed that of the disease industry,” said Leroy Hood....“The contrast between 20th and 21st Century medicine is striking, 21st is proactive, focused on the individual, disease and it employs personalized data clouds to explore the complexities of human beings.” The idea of scientific wellness is a quantitative approach that includes improving the health of individuals, create personalized treatments, reverse disease transitions and reduce costs — distinct from the current wellness trend focusing primarily on behaviors such as diet and lifestyle.Precision medicine, much like the future in cyberpunk author William Gibson ’s oft-cited quote, is already her...
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