Reinventing Health Care: The Coevolution of Biology, Technology, and Culture

We are living in a sci-fi world full of bionic limbs, wonder drugs, 3D-printed organs, lab-grown muscles, and brain-computer interfaces.

The quality and longevity of life have never been more assured, as the field of health reaches a new zenith every day.

Gene sequencing, brain mapping, and vitals tracking are quantifying and personalizing health faster than we can process it — and supercomputers are helping us make sense of it all, leading to new breakthroughs.

We are witnessing exponential growth in the field of health. We will all become citizen doctors, bionically enhanced and genetically hacked.

This coevolution of technology and biology — accelerated by culture — will lead us to become the masters of our evolutionary destiny.

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• 1. 1 Reinventing Health Care The Coevolution of Biology, Technology, and Culture
• 2. 2 We are living in a sci-fi world full of bionic limbs, wonder drugs, 3D-printed organs, lab-grown muscles, and brain-computer interfaces. The quality and longevity of life have never been more assured, as the field of health reaches a new zenith every day. Gene sequencing, brain mapping, and vitals tracking are quantifying and personalizing health faster than we can process it — and supercomputers are helping us make sense of it all, leading to new breakthroughs. We are witnessing exponential growth in the field of health. We will all become citizen doctors, bionically enhanced and genetically hacked. This coevolution of technology and biology — accelerated by culture — will lead us to become the masters of our evolutionary destiny.
• 3. 3 THE MOBILE HOSPITAL Hospitals will soon be able to outsource many of their current functions to 
 tech-empowered patients, ushering in the mobile hospital. THE MOBILE HOSPITAL Hospitals will soon be able to outsource many of their current functions 
 to tech-empowered patients, ushering in the mobile hospital.
• 4. 4 HOSPITALS ARE EMBRACING SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST APPS & WEARABLES 70% Percentage of health care organizations that will 
 invest in consumer-facing mobile apps, wearables, remote health monitoring, 
 and virtual care by 2018 More than a dozen top hospitals are already rolling out 
 pilot programs of Apple’s HealthKit service. Meanwhile, Google and Samsung aren’t sitting idly by; they are securing 
 hospital partners of their own for Google Fit and S Health, respectively.
• 5. 5 THESE DEVICES ARE BECOMING OUR 
 GO-TO DIAGNOSTIC CENTERS… Samsung is developing a wearable sensor that can monitor brainwaves to detect the early stages 
 of a stroke. Columbia University biomedical engineers invented a smartphone attachment that can test human blood for HIV or syphilis in 15 minutes. SniffPhone will employ NaNose breathalyzer technology that can “smell” a user’s breath to diagnose cancer or other serious diseases.
• 6. 6 …AND BECOMING MORE SEAMLESS IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES 100+ Number of doctors and researchers employed by Google who are working specifically on health projects, including a contact lens that can monitor glucose levels
• 7. 7 SENSORS ARE TURNING OUR HOMES INTO STATE-OF-THE-ART LABS DynoSense launched a mobile device that can measure more than 50 vital signs with high accuracy in less than a minute. Teague created a “doctor in 
 a box” concept — a smart stethoscope and teleconferencing camera that can measure movement, heart rate, and temperature — with existing technology.
• 8. 8 MANIFESTATIONS IN WIDER CULTURE Even in our day-to-day, we’re tracking movements with wearables and sensors. “Quantified Self” Movement Microsoft Kinect Intel’s MICA Fitness Trackers
• 9. 9 SO WHAT? Self-tracking and monitoring have become ingrained in our culture as we collect data on nearly everything we do. It’s a natural progression that apps, wearables, and in-home sensors are becoming sophisticated enough to be diagnostic centers in the palms of our hands.