Health

Traditional sources are still the leading trust brokers, but online information is catching up.

As an epidemiologist, Dr. Sandro Galea is always concerned with the aspects of our lives and environments that determine our health as individuals and society.

Three years ago, Zoë Keating lost her husband to an aggressive form of non-smoker lung cancer. At the time, she lived in a rural area outside of Santa Rosa, California, and was independently insured. She had to balance her career as a composer and cellist and her dual roles as mother to a young child and spouse to the patient.

Zoë Keating asked if patients have ample opportunity to provide feedback to the healthcare system.

For a Millennial, Arielle Burstein spends a lot of time thinking about aging. She works with businesses to understand how demography will change how they design products and services and manage their workforce.

Dr. Joe Kvedar is doing the math and looking at trends. With a long career in connected health, he is eager for artificial intelligence technologies to take hold. Not for the sake of new and shiny things, but because he hopes they can bridge the gap between our growing need for care and the dwindling number of caregivers.

Millions of people increasingly use digital technologies to track their health, not their diseases. Connected devices monitor their workouts, diets, heart rates and sleep. The subsequent exponential rise of health data is transforming healthcare, much as data and analytics are disrupting most industries.

You’ve heard of Watson, IBM’s supercomputer that beat out human contestants on “Jeopardy.” However, its practical uses are in healthcare. Watson-based systems are already assisting medical professionals as they read information and plot treatment plans.