Lifeblood of Health is Data

Health is the most important aspect of life. However, health is the least developed aspect of modern society that increasingly uses data as a major resource for understanding complexities in a system and relies on predictive control for the overall improvement of systems. Progress in biology, multimodal sensors, mobile devices, computing, and related areas is rapidly establishing that health is a perpetual personal data system rather than current population-based episodic disease-oriented healthcare approach. Lifestyle is more important for controlling health than medicine. Technology now allows us to perpetually measure lifestyle and analyze it to build personal models and estimate health state for developing predictive, preventive, personalized approach for maximizing healthiness for most people in the world. These emerging approaches have demonstrated their early success and are now ready for helping people achieve their health goals. Data is the lifeblood of health; technology has a great opportunity to bring this imminent transformation now.