The Human API Information

There is no shortage of calls for prevention over cure. But we know the prevention industry will not simply create itself. Don’t get us wrong, the destination is inevitable but the journey will be bumpy. We do not have to look hard for an example of the future. Today our cars are better managers of their health than we humans are. Cars are now sensored with hundreds of listening devices recording, healing, reporting, crunching and reporting on the “health” of the car, constantly, and in ‘real-time’. As a result, cars can now “prevent” burn outs (cure based traumatic events) by summoning themselves to “service centers” instead of mechanic shops. You can think of the mechanic shop as the metaphorical primary care physician’s office of the car. The mechanic shop is now far less prevalent, and service centers are abundant. The question is then, what do humans need? We need to be able to listen to ourselves, to record our analog physiology, digitally. That future exists today. We need ‘lab-in-a-box’ capabilities to be able to test at home, and not rely on doctors to run tests. We need to create a stream of actionable data that can help provide insight about our health. We need better tools to receive and analyze those data to more accurately understand ourselves. We need to destroy the model of interrupted data. Our health care is too important to be so fragmented.