Many diseases can be mitigated, but we do not have effective tools for widespread prevention or early detection. This inequality leads to inadequate preventive care, making many individuals susceptible to diseases that could otherwise be avoided or treated earlier.
The current healthcare system is overburdened by the need to treat developed diseases, underscoring an urgent need for health monitoring solutions that are accessible and scalable, rather than expensive and centralized.
8 billion people around the world collectively shed trillions of vital health and disease signs into the ether — 24/7/365.
Healthcare systems worldwide will soon face a cliff, with an ever-growing number of patients developing and discovering late-stage developed diseases. These conditions are not only global in scale but also place an immense financial burden on our societies.
Primary care systems are primarily responsible for promoting health and preventing diseases. However, the tools currently used for prevention are often inefficient and resource-intensive.
Due to the lack of efficient large-scale prevention tools, current preventative measures are less effective than they could be. This inefficiency contributes to a growing number of sick individuals, further burdening the healthcare system.
When does disease actually reveal itself? Medical settings represent less than 1% of our life's time, yet most health services are concentrated then. This temporal limitation results in health checks being too infrequent for many, necessitating a shift in our perspective from viewing healthcare as an instance, to embracing a care-continuum paradigm. It's in that other 99% of our life's time – the life setting – when innovative solutions are critically needed.
Where does disease actually reveal itself? Medical settings represent less than 1% of our life's space, yet most health solutions are confined there. This spatial limitation results in healthcare being too inaccessible for many, necessitating a shift in our perspective from viewing healthcare as a place, to embracing a care-anywhere paradigm. It's in that other 99% of our life's space – the life setting – where innovative solutions are critically needed.
As healthcare consumers, we should be at the center of our own healthcare journey. Our current healthcare system is still heavily oriented around physical modalities to access care, primarily from providers and payers, while patients are often left with limited alternatives.
Providers and payers are crucial parts of our healthcare system, but they cannot typically be the first source of basic care for patients.
Digital technologies have radically transformed every industry in our economy. Healthcare will be no exception; however, its digital "moment" has not yet arrived.
Even today, Telehealth is not transformationally innovative—it was already envisioned back in the 1960s. Yet, it currently remains little more than Zoom added to a phone call from the 1960s where patients would (and still) verbally describe Symptoms to physicians in a one-way exchange. This approach is still constrained by the same limitation: the inability for physicians to also objectively measure Signs from the patient.
Advancements in technologies that transition qualitative analog signals to quantitative digital data have been innovatively applied to many sectors, yielding radically new solutions to disrupt old problems.
It's time for a new paradigm in health monitoring that approaches innovation from a 'horizontal' perspective—where a novel solution can address a range of diseases.
In the future, these solutions will measure the signs of potential diseases more: quantitatively, frequently, and scalably (by computers); and conveniently, accessibly, and affordably (for consumers).
We believe these solutions will make it obvious how ineffective our traditional paradigm has been — perhaps making us realize in retrospect that our health had been "in the dark" for 99% of our lives.
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