A Navigational Approach to Health
Friday 6 July 2018, 10:00am to 11:00am
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CHC - Charles Carter A18 - View MapOpen to
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What if an app could guide you to better health, similar to how GPS navigation directs you to your desired destination?
Advances in sensors, mobile computing, artificial intelligence, data management, cloud computing, biology, and medicine allow us to approach human health from a novel navigational perspective.
Current episodic practice of healthcare is based on a Measure-Estimate-Guide-Influence (MEGI) cycle that is initiated usually by a sick person. By navigating through health states starting from the current state to desired goal state, it is possible to perpetually guide a person using well established cybernetic principles combined with emerging technology that has demonstrated its success in many other areas. This converts current episodic approaches to healthcare, which really is sickcare, to a navigation through health state-space to guide and move to desirable states.
We discuss this navigational approach and present the personal health navigator as a device that may help people accomplish this.
Speaker
University of California
Ramesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine, where he is the founding director of the Institute for Future Health. His current research passion is in addressing health issues using cybernetic principles building on the progress in sensors, mobile, processing, and storage technologies. Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over
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