In 2006 we started Hexoskin as a “machine learning for health” company, then realized automated health intelligence will only be possible once we build the data infrastructure to feed the algorithms. Our wearable health sensors (smart clothing and other devices) are part of the answer to the question: how do you get the data you need to deliver Wellness as...
Read MoreHealthcare is becoming more proactive and data-rich than anything before possible – and will increasingly focus on maintaining and enhancing wellness more than just reacting to disease. Lee Hood and I have recently launched a large-scale 100K wellness project that integrates genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomes, clinical chemistries and wearable devices of the quantified self to monitor wellness and disease. The...
Read MoreOne of the most important changes in health and medicine is the drive toward actionable data-driven insights and interventions. The need is undeniable. The future of healthcare is increasingly about prevention and reversal of chronic conditions In the future, your health care provider will be less well trained, younger, less experienced. He/she will be less likely to have the wisdom...
Read MoreThere is widespread agreement that lifestyle focused preventative approaches are the most effective way to combat conditions like diabetes and heart disease. But behavior change is hard, and to date, even the most effective in-person programs include little (or no) personalization. The data science team at Omada is changing that. We’ll discuss how we’ve built machine learning and experimentation directly...
Read MoreThe future will be a world of increasing abundance, where the individual’s need for holistic wellbeing will be optimized for on the fly, and at a systems level. Systems at all hierarchical levels (such as personalized physiologies, societies, economies, and ecologies) will be simultaneously considered. This will be realized because agents (whether large corporations, startups, individuals and later predominately algorithms)...
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