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Quantified Self in the Economist

Great article!

mHealth infographic

Listen to this: 1 billion doctor visits per year in the US alone in 2011 and 88% of doctors would like patients to monitor their health at home...

#market data

Big Data and Healthcare

Some great comments on mHealth by former U.S. CTO, Aneesh Chopra - about letting users download their own data and about how analyzing the outliers in the data might help people in need and cut costs.

#big data

Stephen Wolfram Quantified

Stephen Wolfram publish an amazing blog post where he shows data about his habit on email, exercise, meetings, even keystokes - check out the link. Amazing! Think about the final words: "As personal analytics develops, it’s going to give us a whole new dimension to experiencing our lives. At first it all may seem quite nerdy (and certainly as I glance back at this blog post there’s a risk of that). But it won’t be long before it’s clear how incredibly useful it all is—and everyone will be doing it, and wondering how they could have ever gotten by before. And wishing they had started sooner, and hadn’t “lost” their earlier years."

#quantified self

Blood pressure patch

A danish company called Sense has developed a blood pressure sensor which is just a simple patch which means it can be worn 24/7 and give more data.

#sensors

Big Data for mHealth

I've been surprised to not have found a big data platform for mHealth, but apparently I wasn't looking enough - just stumbled on http://ginger.io who say they are "a Behavioral Analytics Platform that empowers better health.".

#big data

The Health Datapalooza

Working in mHealth? Then check out The Health Datapalooza-conference who wants to be a TED for mHeath: http://www.hdiforum.org/

#conference

Checking diabetes with a "flashlight"?

Keeping you sugar and insulin level is an awful job for most diabetics, and the constant pricking of fingers a daily chore. A lot of research is being done in finding non-invasive methods and recently a company called Freedom Meditech announced that they are going into human clinical trials with their glucose monitor which is more or less a flashlight that can analyse the glucose level in the eye fluids. Hopefully for diabetics someone will solve this soon, and the prize is substantial as the global diabetes “self test” medical device market is around $9 billion.

#diabetes

Apps on prescription in the UK

"England's National Health Service just announced it will encourage general practitioners to "prescribe" apps rather than actual doctors' visits whenever possible." - FireceMobileHealth

#mobile apps

Tattoo sensors?

A sensor thinner than a human hair that sticks to human skin without glue but due to pure physical forces has been developed. FT continues "[its] power consumption is so low that no battery will be needed for most applications. The device can draw energy from its environment". The prototype so far can sense muscle movements and has been used among other things recognize speech when attached to the throat - even when the user just mouths the words and does not make a sounds. A company has been set up and the first project is targeting 2012 as a launch and is with Reebok as a customer.

#quantified self

Mobile diabetes monitoring

Two companies just released interesting products that can help diagnosing diabetes patients - Telcare is doing an iPhone app to log data from a glucose sensor and creates "graphic tables showing patients their latest readings, trending the monitor's findings according to time of day, meal status and activity levels. Additionally, it uploads each test result automatically to the Telcare.com website, where it can be viewed by family members, physicians and others." The other company is "Cellnovo, [who] launched its new mobile-enabled insulin pump, tied to a cell or smartphone for transferring data."

mHealth prognosis

Another prediction of the growth of value of mHealth, this time by GSMA (EU's Group Speciale Mobile Association). By 2017 the worldwide market is predicted to be: - Monitoring: $15 billion (65%) - Diagnosis: $3.4 billion (15%) - Treatment: $2.3 billion (10%) - Health practitioner suppor: $1.1 billion (5%) - Wellness: $700 million (3%) - Prevention: $200 million (1%) - Administration: $100 million (1%) - Health surveillance support (public health): $100 million (1%) - Emergency response, $0.0 (obviously 0%) GRAND TOTAL 23+ billion

#market data

Remote drug delivery?

Financial Times writes that "a wirelessly controlled implant, which delivers precise drug doses into the patient’s body, has had a successful first clinical trial. (---) The chips were implanted into the abdomen of seven women in their late 60s who were suffering from osteoporosis. The procedure took 30 minutes under local anaesthetic. The implants remained in the patients for four months and caused no adverse reactions." Isn't this amazing? Think of when there will be a sensor reading the state and injecting medications autonomously...

#automated medication

A sensor in your shattered femur?

"Break a leg" might be a great thing to say at the theatre, but when you actually do it the pain is seldom in the moment of collision but in the long and arduous healing process. During that doctors have to follow the progress with x-rays from time to time, which in itself is not painful but not a fun thing to do. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York plan to change this and has a functional prototype of a microscopic sensor that that can be implanted with the nuts and bolts already installed to hold your bones together. The sensor provides "doctors with real-time data—including load, strain, motion, temperature, and pressure measurements—wirelessly and without the need for an attached power supply.". Pretty amazing!

#sensors

2016 we will have 3M users transmitting medical data

Juniper Research projects that by 2016, more than 3 million patients will be using remote monitoring devices that transmit data via smartphone. The big drivers of the market are the growing number of peripheral devices for monitoring patient data--from wearable biometric sensors to testing and diagnostic plug-ins.

#market data

Who handles mHealth at carriers? Anyone?

AT&T created an interesting position a couple of months ago: chief medical information officer, and hired Geeta Nayyar for the job. She want to make "health information portable and accessible from anywhere, rather than stuck within an individual hospital networks". Sounds great! (Her example is not very visionary to get an "app to make doctors' appointments", but as a first step it is ok.) What other carriers have medical officers? mHealth soon showing up in many org charts? Who handles mHealth in your organisation?

#cmio

ePatient-Doctor comms is needed

Great long article in TechCrunch about the massive need to improve communication between patients and the health care system using modern internet technology. Read it and consider that healthcare represents nearly 20% of the US-economy, and that 75% of the spend results from chronic conditions. One can realize what mHealth can do - and how valuable permanent sensors and constant tracking of symtoms could reduce cost and improve health.

#quantified self

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