Future of Health focusing on Quantified Self and DIY Health. Presentation giving for THNK, The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership

1. Maarten den Braber
Digital Health Strategist
Co-founder QS Europe / Amsterdam
Co-founder Nexthealth
@mdbraber
http://mdbraber.com
m@mdbraber.com
+31 6 13897073
Future of Health
Quantified Self / DIY Health
THNK Amsterdam, June 5 2013

2. Future of Health?
1. Converging trends: DIY, mobile, sensors, data
2. Health doesn’t happen in the doctor’s office
3. (Improved) engagement is key
Question: how can we use this for good?

5. Quantified Self
Beyond numerals: can include graphs,
visualizations or qualitative time-series
data (“how do I feel?”)

6. Quantified Self
Self concerns everybody in the sphere of
direct individual concern. E.g. it could
include other family members

7. Emerging, converging and
exponential trends
DIY, Sensors, Wearables, Mobile, Data

8. DIY / P2P everywhere
Publishing
Wordpress, Twitter, Lulu
Tourism
AirBnB, Vayable
Finance
Kickstarter, Indiegogo,
Production
MakerBot, 3Dhubs
Transportation
GetAround, Fiat Mio
Hardware
Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Biology
OpenPCR, GlowingPlant
Energy
WakaWaka Light

9. But what about
DIY health?

10. Sara Riggare
Sara is a Parkinson’s patients who gets to
spend 1 hour per year in health care and the
other 8765 hours in self care

11. Health does not happen
in the doctor’s office

12. (Activity) trackers
Continuous monitoring of movement,
activity, sleep, heart rate, temperature, GSR

13. Lumoback
Continuous monitoring and feedback of
lower-back related problems

14. AliveCor ECG
Single-lead ECG, giving professionals and
patients direct access to reliable ECG data
to be shared for analysis

15. 23andme
DIY genomics testing kit, health risks, drug
response, inherited conditions and traits

16. WellnessFX / InsideTracker
Full biomarker analysis (full blood draw or
drops), tracking and lifestyle/food advice

17. Asthmapolis
Wireless tracker for asthma inhaler use
providing aggregated location/time date

18. MC10 nanotattoo
Flexible, stretchable eletronics for
continous monitoring of vital signs inside
and outside the body

19. Scanadu Scout, Flo, Flu
Medical tricoder device (multiple vital
signs: HR, temperature, SpO2, respiratory
rate, blood pressure, ECG, stress)

20. Proteus ingestible sensor
Pill records time of ingestion, heart rate,
core body temperature, activity and rest
patterns - used for medicine adherence

21. Vitalconnect patch
3 days continuous monitoring of HR, HRV,
activity and respiration rate (resulting in a
stress indicator)

22. Plenty of room
at the bottom

23. Increased engagement
Tracking
leads to

24. Increased engagement
leads to
Improved health

25. Increased engagement
Tracking
leads to
leads to
Improved health

26. New senses and
self-expression
Computers, wearables and other forms of
new technology are used to create new
senses and as form of self-expression

27. Three QS technology layers
1. Input (sensors, devices)
2. Analysis (algorithms, signal processing)
3. Services (visualization, storage, feedback)
The current model of vertical integration will not last and
eventually break up in different parts (diversification)

28. Emerging business models
Continuous
versus
event-based
Single metric
versus
combined metrics
Personal data
versus aggregated data
Health here
versus
in the doctor’s office
Coaching
versus
diagnosing

29. Panopticon for good?
Can we leverage all these tracking abilities,
data and connected media to leverage this
for the good rather than bad?

30. Future of Health?
1. Converging trends: DIY, mobile, sensors, data
2. Health doesn’t happen in the doctor’s office
3. (Improved) engagement is key
Question: how can we use this for good?

31. Maarten den Braber
Digital Health Strategist
Co-founder QS Europe / Amsterdam
Co-founder Nexthealth
@mdbraber
http://mdbraber.com
m@mdbraber.com
+31 6 13897073

33. Why Silicon Valley likes us
Integrated healthcare system
Nationwide approach to healthcare
No need for FDA approval (only CE)
Coherent research population