Information Ecosystems for Well-being: Artifacts from the Future
Information Ecosystems for Well-being: Artifacts from the Future
Today we’re on the verge of a revolution in health information. After a decade of generating unprecedented amounts of data, we’re just coming to understand the promise it holds for our health and wellbeing. By 2022, we’ll see innovators creating tools to harness the flow of data and make it actionable. But we must take an even longer view. Many of the technologies and trends in play in 2022 will not reach their full potential until a decade later. And to truly understand the transformation that’s underway, we have to look to a time when that transformation is more complete. By 2032, the dust will have settled, consensuses will have been reached, and new health information practices and services will have become mainstream. Information ecosystems will be in a state of balance.
This report is an introduction to this distant world in which health and well-being have successfully reorganized around new flows of information. Understanding a world this different--this far in the future--and developing strategies to thrive in it can be difficult. We’ve created these five Artifacts from the Future to immerse you in the world of 2032, so you can start planning now to take an active role as information ecosystems of health and well-being come into balance.
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Genoogle
Researchers at Kankudo Pharmaceuticals use Genoogle to browse potential data sets to use for medicine development. The interface lets them sort by many metrics, including how relevant the data is to their work, how large the sample size is, and what kinds of licensing restrictions the different data sets have.
e-z-health: Taking Guesswork Out of Self-care
What if self-care practices did not entail engagement, willpower, and attention? Through a quick body screen and a syncing up of your devices, e-z-health can create the appropriate nutritional needs and environmental conditions to optimize your health. While you wait 90 seconds for the customized nutritional tablet to print, your schedule is adjusted to ensure your day’s plan is right for your health. A daily dose of e-z-health, takes the guesswork out of self-care.
Public Health Automated & Locally Manifested
Public Health Automated & Locally Manifested (PHALM) manages the city’s health collectively by scanning all citizens who have opted in to the system, looking for threats to individual and collective health, and taking subtle actions to neutralize them.
Health Heroes: Pioneering New Models of Clinical Care
What if breakthrough research into the human micro- biome drives new medical practices and professions? Imagine if your Enterotype Diagnostician prescribed a diet and therapeutic regime for you based on your distinct bacterial ecosystem. Or imagine if your mother’s Nanobiopharmacist suggested that her blood pressure medications be administered through an ingested device, relieving you and your siblings of sustaining concerns about her taking her pills. Health Heroes, practicing medicine all over the world, will translate technology breakthroughs into new capabilities and new professions, and pioneer new models of clinical care.
Healthcart: Shopping for Health and Well-being
What if important health information were delivered through multi-sensory processes, so that you not only relied on visual cues to make health decisions, but you were informed through touch, smell, and sound? HealthCart, steeped in findings emerging from the burgeoning field of multi-sensory research, promotes healthy decisions at the grocery store by leveraging not just your sight, but all of your senses. Your HealthCart knows your previous shopping habits, biometric data, and/or shopping values, making navigating the grocery store easier and even healthier for you.
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If you would like more information about the Health Horizons Program contact Dawn Alva at dalva@iftf.org or 650-233-9585.