The document discusses major trends in digital health for 2015, including wearables, sensors, augmented reality, 3D printing, and big data applications. These technologies are generating more health data from individuals than what was available to hospitals ten years ago. However, obstacles remain around privacy, data interpretation, and ensuring technologies actually improve health outcomes.

1. The Biggest Trends for Digital Health
2015
• I Used to Review
Products
• Now they review me

2. • We Have More Data About
Our Wellness Today than
Sick People in Hospitals Did
10 years ago

3. Genomics, Bionics, Longevity,
Quanfied Self &Big Data, AR,
Wearables

4. Longevity

5. Longevity
• Most of things that were once fatal are not plague, car
crash, heart attack
• First generation to schedule death?
• Atul Gwande: I.C.U. patient requires on avg. a hundred and
seventy-eight individual actions per day
• 95% of what is sent provided to doctors is noise

6. What Can You Change Through
Monitoring
• Brain Ability
• Age
• Behaviors: Smoking Eating
• Inner Self : Breathing, Meditation
• Nutrition
• Fertility

7. Genomics

8. Genomics Meets Moores Law
25 Years Ago a Med Student didn’t
study genetics

9. Beyond Genes: A Fresh Look at Blood

10. Bionics
• Augmented Hearing through PSAPs
• Night Vision
• AR for navigating
• Jump higher
• Replace worn parts

11. The Age of SuperMan
• Exoskeletons for SuperPowers
• Designer Babies

12. Big Data
• 90% of the data in the world has been created in
the last 2 years
• Watson- like abilities: Watson eats medical
studies, journals, cases and parses the
information
• Watson won jeopardy first, now cancer
• Substantial parts of what hospitals do—most
notably, intensive care—are now too complex for
clinicians to carry them out reliably from memory
alone.--- Atul Gwande

13. “The trick is to make this data actionable. Blend it with artificial intelligence,
we’re going to learn new things and the consumer can triage themselves.”
Daniel Kraft, Singularity University
Dr. Daniel Kraft, Faculty Chair, Singularity
University; Founding Executive Director,
Exponential Medicine

14. Fad Alert ?
“This year is going to be defined by the Apple watch.
Many people are going to buy the Apple watch and see if it works and see if it delivers
something new… We haven’t yet seen the promise of what a sensor on your skin is
really going to do for you beyond lose weight.”
Robert Scoble , Startup Liaison, Rackspace
Hosting @Scobleizer

15. THE PERFECT STORM
Technology: Mobile Phones, Sensors, Cloud
Regulatory: Spectrum, FDA, ObamaCare
Economic: The Theory of Abundance

16. AUGMENTED REALITYWhat’s so augmented about reality?
What information can you layer on the world
to make it more useful?
Augmented = add
Reality = world

17. REALITYThe Difference Between AR and VR
It’s a matter of
Immersion, Engagement
and Weight

18. AUGMENTED REALITYMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
CONTEXT SURGERY:
Obtain critical information such as
patient vital signs, pertinent drug
dosage, test results and intra-
operative, imagining such as x-ray
or ultrasound via direct medical
equipment interfaces.

19. AUGMENTED REALITYTHE BASICS OF AR

20. WEARABLESA NATURAL EVOLUTION

21. WEARABLESBUILDING BLOCKS OF WEARABLES

22. WEARABLESBUILDING BLOCKS OF WEARABLES
Scanadu’s Scout Misfit Shine
Beam Toothbrush
Neurosky
EEG and ECG

23. WEARABLES2014 We Move Past Glorified Pedometers
• Body Temperature
• Galvanic Skin Response
• Altitude
• Weight Bearing
• Pulse Oximetry
• Heart Rate
• Blood Glucose
• Sleep
• Optomechanics

24. WEARABLESA NATIONAL HABIT
• Three quarters of online U.S. consumers
(75%) own a fitness technology product. (UP
61% in 2012)
• Pedometers remain the most popular 37%
• Others include fitness video games (26%) and
portable blood pressure monitors (21%)
• Price, battery life, size and falling off the
wagon are biggest obstacles.
• Forecast for purchase is huge.

25. WEARABLESQUANTIFIED SELF
Using tech devices to
measure all bodily input
and output.
Is quantified self more than
a narcissistic indulgence?

26. WEARABLESBEHAVIORAL NUDGING
Monitoring Daily Routines and providing feedback

27. WEARABLESA FEW OBSTACLES
• Beauty/batteries and dry cleaning
• Virtual patient visit will need to be reimbursable
• Patients are overwhelmed like when AT&T divested
• Don’t ask Dr. Google questions. The answer is cancer
• Track-aholism
• The Graveyard of Dead Devices

28. GenomicsA FEW OBSTACLES
• Beauty/batteries and dry cleaning
• Virtual patient visit will need to be reimbursable
• Patients are overwhelmed like when AT&T divested
• Don’t ask Dr. Google questions. The answer is cancer
• Track-aholism
• The Graveyard of Dead Devices

30. SENSORSMO’ BETTER SENSORS

31. BEHIND THE SENSORSIN BIG DATA WE TRUST
Detecting Patterns of Large Numbers of Users:
• The Driverless Car
• The Ingestible Pill
• The Lively Sensor
• Genetic Markers

32. SENSORSBIG DATA BEHIND EACH INDIVIDUAL
WAZE
JAWBONE UP

33. SENSORSBIOSTAMP FROM MC10
BANDS ARE JUST TODAY’S INCARNATION

34. SENSORSROBOTICS
• Paralyzed to walk (rehab)
• Dementia (5.2 million in US alone)

35. SENSORSINCENTIVES FOR BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
• Gaming – win points for behaving well
• Clinical trials out in the open
• Crowd-sourcing

36. SENSORSNEW MODES OF INTERACTION
• Haptic and Gesture
• MultiTouch
• Voice
• Mind control
• Photo Capture
• Augmented Reality

37. SENSORSNATURAL INTERFACE

38. SENSORSRULE OF SCREENS
The Closer to Our Body the More We Look;
The Further From Our Body the Longer we Look

39. SENSORSPHOTOS AND SCANS

40. SENSORSGESTURE

41. SENSORSMULTI TOUCH

42. SENSORSJUST THINK ABOUT IT

43. 3D PRINTINGRapid Prototyping and Iteration
• Fast prototyping
• If you can imagine it
you can design it
• Materials are
expensive
• Plastics are not
recyclable

45. PRINTING
Start with an idea
Using a 3D design program, such
as Google SketchUp or Autodesk
123D, you can capture your idea
and create a 3D file.
3D PRINTING

46. Next you load your 3d design into
a program, such as Cura, that can
control a printer.
PRINTING

47. And finally, the printer
actually prints your design.
Image from 3dprintingforbeginners.com
PRINTING

48. A Big Responsibility as Consumer(90% of 18-24 year olds say
they’d trust medical info shared by others on their social network
Search Internet
Patients Like Me, Gut Biome Project
20% of smartphone users have at least
1 health app

49. Techethics
• Time for a new field to emerge
• Ask the right questions in a time when
information is so plentiful

51. CONTACT
ROBIN RASKIN
robin@robinraskin.com
(201) 564-7900
Founder & President, Living in Digital Times