This presentation was delivered at the Wearable Tech Show held at the Business Design Centre in Islington London. It looks at the opportunities and challenges presented by disruptive digital technologies being developed for the health sector. It concludes that digital technologies which support preventative healthcare and personal health management are vital for the sustainability of public health services which are globally threatened by lifestyle related conditions such as obesity, diabetes and dementia. It highlights the dangers of over-dependence on technologies such as artificial intelligence and an unreasonable expectation that technologies can absolve us the need to take personal responsibility for our own health management.

1. Digital Behaviours
Bad Habits or Opportunities?
Walking Timebombs?
David Wortley FRSA
Vice President ISDM

2. My Background
International Society of Digital Medicine
(ISDM)

3. The Price of Progress ?
Will the technology revolution damage our health?

4. Technology Timeline 1950 - 2018
40 Years 30 Years
Analogue Digital

5. A Time of Exponential Change
Ray Kurzweil
What is the impact of exponential change
and artificial intelligence?

6. Technology-Driven Health Challenges
Is convenient and on-
demand access to our
daily wants and needs
leading to a decline in the
physical and mental
challenges necessary for
our lifelong development
and health maintenance ?

7. Technology-Driven Health Challenges
Modern Lifestyle
consequences include many
negative effects which
place increasing demands
on available resources and
threaten the sustainability
of public services for future
generations

8. Obesity, Diabetes, Cancer & Cardiovascular Problems
● Sedentary lifestyle
● Convenience foods
● Comfort eating
● Inadequate exercise
● Couch potato syndrome
● Spectator society

9. Ageing Society – Cognitive and Physical Decline
● Declining working
population
● Longer life expectancy
● Middle Age skills “scrap
heap”
● Shift from families to care
homes
● Rising costs of elderly care

10. What can be Done ?
The consequences of a failure to address these
challenges are unthinkable.

11. Shifting Responsibilities
Who is responsible for our condition?

12. Who should be responsible for Health?
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13. Clinical Solutions
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14. Public Policy Interventions
Taxes & Legislation
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15. Public Policy Interventions
Awareness and Education
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16. Better Personal Health Management
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17. Which is the Best Solution?
Who will Provide the Solution?
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Medical Professionals or Politicians or Citizens?

18. The Transition from Cure to Prevention
It’s quite clear that the best chance we have for
increasing our life spans and overall improving
our health is to adjust our personal behaviours
and to do so at an early age.
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19. Serious Games and Health
Leveraging Consumer Technology to Address Global Challenges

20. The Same but Different !
My Body is not a Temple it is a Vehicle

21. Navigating Life’s Journey
Life is like a journey from the cradle to the grave. We
know the starting point and the final destination and
we are aware of the places en route but we have little
idea of how long the journey will last and whether the
route will be easy or difficult

22. Our Body is our Life’s Journey Vehicle
Our body is the vehicle that will take us to our final
destination and its condition determines where we are on
that journey, the nature of the journey and how long it will
last. Most of us do not know or monitor our body’s
condition or properly maintain it

23. Lifestyle Technology Transforming Health Management
Wearable and embedded technologies change the dynamics of our
health management like the dynamics of car health management

24. Where are We and Where can we Go?
Wearable and embedded lifestyle technologies can
provide the tools to manage our health

25. It is Possible to Transform your Health
Gamification and Enabling Technologies
For Personal Health Management

26. It is Possible to Transform your Health

27. Role of Digital Technologies
● Measuring and monitoring
● Analysing and informing
● Visualising
● Predicting
● Connecting & Collaborating
● Controlling

28. What does the Future Hold?
30 Years 30 Years

29. Building a Sustainable Future through Digital
Medicine / Health / Wellbeing
● Wearable consumer devices to provide
advanced health metrics
● Healthcare costs linked to lifestyle behaviours
● Revolution in the healthcare ecosystem
● Use of wearable lifestyle devices for identity
applications
● Growth in embedded devices that not only
monitor but also control

30. Digital Behaviours
Bad Habits or Opportunities?
Walking Timebombs?
David Wortley FRSA
Vice President ISDM