From www.wired.co.uk - December 28, 2016 4:35 PM

Although it's exciting to witness the explosion of personal "omics", wearables, connected devices and thousands of health-related apps, the impact may be a big "so what?" if the information isn't

made easily accessible, digestible and actionable. Few individuals, whether a healthy triathlete or a patient struggling to manage a chronic disease, want to wear and charge multiple devices, log in to and manage several apps, and be fed raw or fragmented information that is not easily understandable or actionable nor connected to their coaching or medical team.

 

Similarly, clinicians need to have access to their patients' data in a useful, absorbable and reliable way that integrates seamlessly with their clinical workflow. No cardiologist wants to be liable for monitoring streaming 24/7 ECGs that can flow from smart sticky plasters, nor does your nurse practitioner want to have to log into your Fitbit account to review your activity and heart-rate data.

 

In order for these new and emerging technologies to enable proactive healthcare, barriers need to be reduced so that:

 

  1. They are easy to use, and reliably obtain accurate physiological data
  2. The information flowing from them is delivered and presented to the clinician in a useful, actionable form
  3. Machine learning and data analytics can be applied to extract the useful information and help make it actionable
  4. Incentives are aligned, including reimbursement to providers for leveraging connected care

 

As we enter 2017, we will begin to move from a "Quantified Self" era, where the data has generally remained siloed on the devices and apps of the individual and not integrated into clinical care, to the emergence of "Quantified Health", where the data from common consumers' wearables, scales, BP cuffs, glucometers and even home lab data, will flow through consumer's smart phones (via Apple's HealthKit, and more recently via Google Fit and Samsung's S-Health) and integrate into electronic medical records (EMRs) of the clinician. This will bring feedback loops which can communicate back to individual patients, engaging and empowering patients along the way. More…

 

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