Health 2050: The Realization of Personalized Medicine through Crowdsourcing, the Quantified Self, and the Participatory Biocitizen
By Melanie Swan. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2012
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The concepts of health and health care are moving towards the notion of personalized preventive health maintenance and away from an exclusive focus on the cure of disease. This is against the backdrop of contemporary public health challenges that include increasing costs, worsening outcomes, ‘diabesity’ epidemics, and anticipated physician shortages. Personalized preventive medicine could be critical to solving public health challenges at their causal root. This paper sets forth a vision and plan for the realization of preventive medicine by 2050 and examines efforts already underway such as participatory health initiatives, the era of big health data, and qualitative shifts in mindset.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies (2013, methodology): “One specific aspect of mHealth that has received attention of late is that of using mobile and wearable digital devices to collect data on one’s bodily functions and everyday activities (Kirwan et al. 2010; Cummiskey 2011; Swan 2012).”
- Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary. (2015, background): “…search engine queries and social media content is viewed as having great potential for producing new knowledges about illness and disease and contributing to preventive medicine and health promotion (Brownstein et al., 2009; Dredze, 2012; Harris, 2012; Swan, 2012c; Barrett et al., 2013 ).”
- The Quantified Self: Fundamental Disruption in Big Data Science and Biological Discovery (2013, background): “The study has found that the main reason individuals conducted QS projects was to resolve or optimize a specific lifestyle issue such as sleep quality.(20) Another key finding was that QS experimenters often iterated through many different solutions, and kinds of solutions, before finding a final re”
- Sensor Mania! The Internet of Things, Wearable Computing, Objective Metrics, and the Quantified Self 2.0 (2012, neutral): “Another program is the widespread adoption of health savings accounts (HSAs) by employer-funded health plans in the US [37], where consumers purchase health services more directly.”
- Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care (2016, background): “At stake in this article is what I call ‘data for life’, a related, complimentary response to the notion that we are all potentially sick in which wellness depends on the continuous collection, analysis and management of personal data through digital sensor technologies (see Swan, 2012).”
- Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps (2015, background): “…technologies and wearable computing with the potential of both ‘small data’ (detailed data one collects about oneself) and ‘big data’ (large masses of aggregated data) will inform lay people and healthcare and public health professionals alike (Smarr 2012; Swan 2012a, 2012b; Topol 2012).”
- Visualized and Interacted Life: Personal Analytics and Engagements with Data Doubles (2014, background): “An important arena for observing these kinds of auto-regulative processes of everyday governmentality is the Quantified Self movement that started in California in 2008 [1,13].”