The Scan the Medical System Doesn’t Want You Asking For? | NYNext

Lydia Moynihan sits down with Prenuvo founder and CEO Andrew Lacy to talk about a startling gap in modern medicine: most cancers are never caught in routine screenings. Lacy says his company is trying to flip the traditional health-care model on its head with full-body MRI scans designed to spot cancer, aneurysms and other diseases before symptoms ever appear. In the conversation, he explains why the current system often waits until patients are already sick — and why insurers haven’t rushed to embrace early detection. Moynihan also gets an inside look at the high-tech scan experience that’s turning preventive medicine into something closer to a consumer product. Could this be the future of health care? Lacy makes a provocative case.