Why am I interested in Healthcare  Why am I interested in
healthcare?  First, I don't want to die. Second, it's
interesting. Third, I'm a venture capital investor ...
Healthcare is a major (and growing) area of our economy and as
such presents investment opportunities. Finally, healthcare and
IT are converging.  One area of healthcare that is of interest
to an IT investor is known as "personalized medicine". As usual
Wikipedia explains this well. My precis is that personalized
medicine is old-fashioned medicine plus computers. Personal
genetics is a case in point.  Take 23andMe, the genetics company
founded by (Google founder) Sergey Brin’s wife Anne Wojcicki
that launches today. You can send 23andMe a saliva sample, and
they extract lots of information from your DNA about your
ancestry and other information that may be health related such
as genetic markers for predispositions to certain conditions.
My (lay) understanding is that 23andMe surveys your genome for
SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms). Compet