Why you are the future of healthcare
Prof. Dr. Koen Kas
Smart Systems Industry Summit
December 4, 2013
Our healthcare system has expired
The Chinese paid their doctor to remain healthy
As soon as they got sick, they no longer had to pay
From 100€ spend on healthcare,1€ goes to
prevention - and 90€ to last 2 years of our lives
Centenarians fastest-growing age group
Chronic disease epidemics

Projected rise in most common
chronic diseases, 2003-2023
Shortage of doctors
“Doctors pour drugs of which they know little,
to cure diseases of which they know less,
into patients of whom they know nothing”
Moliere
French author sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)
Why do we regularly check oil and water level
in our car, but not the status of our body?
The future of healthcare
Predictive, Personalised, Participatory, Preventive, Augmented
The future of healthcare
Predictive, Personalised, Participatory, Preventive, Augmented
Precise
1. Age of Genomic medicine
Personal genome analysers

Illumina - FDA approved, Nov 2013
Personal genome analysers

MinION
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Personal genome analysers, II

Genapsys

INanoBio

Biomeme
Cancer drugs get personal / precise

Treatment ‘V600E BRAF’
The impact of Angelina

X3 in 6 weeks time
Personal genomics’ Napster moment?
Fetal sequencing
from 1 drop mom’s
blood

No more invasive testing
The impact of 1 Danish spermdonor

20+ children with
Neurofibromatosis
Need to combine genome with other data
• Personal Omics Profile
(iPOP) - n=1, 1.5Y, 300 Tb
• Quantified self movement
• Tricorder-like devs &
wearable sensors
2. Age of self monitoring
Wearable devices, smartphones, clothes,… & Apps
Quantified self: from geeks to 10M consumers

Nike Fuelband (x LoseIt!)

FitBit Force
Wireless activity tracker

Shine (Misfit Wearables)
Time for consolidation - and avoiding silo’s
Star Trek-like tricorder
34 contestants -15.30.3

Thermometer

Scanadu Scout (2014)
Blood glucose meters - setting goals

iBGStar Blood Glucose Meter
WaveSense Diabetes Manager
Heart monitor in iPhone case

AliveCor, FDA approved
Diagnose ear infections at home

Otoscope (CellScope)
Remote eye exams

iExaminer (Welch Allyn)
Tracking sleep patterns

Beddit
Track eating behaviour

Hapifork
Portable ultrasound scanner

Vscan
(GE Heathcare)

Mobisante
EEG headband measures brainwaves

Sony Smartwig

Emotiv EPOC
Wearable computing
Smart clothing
Wearable computing
Baby monitors

Sproutling

Owlet
Sensor bears

Teddy The Guardian

Tedi
How long until your doctor is wearing
Google Glass?
Wearable computing
Watches

Samsung Galaxy Gear

Artist’s rendition of iWatch
Straight up to a better posture

LUMOback
Sensor-laden shirts

"Move“, Jennifer Darmour

Athos
A bra to detect breast cancer in time

First Warning Systems
Contact lens embedded with a chip to
measure eye pressure (glaucoma risk)

Sensimed
Artificial Retina

Argus II,
Second Sight
Sensors in a temporary tattoo

MC10′s “biostamps”
Energy harvesting chips

EFPL, Lausanne
Doctors will prescribe smart phone apps
But an App will not cure cancer
Smartphone Apps melanoma detection
Sensitivity from 7% to 98% (Study 01/13)

MelApp
(Health Discovery Operation)
Towards clinical trials for Apps

Nov 13, 2013:
103 regulated Apps
Personal logging

Moves

Argus
Dawn of the ”personal logging“ era

Emergence of personal portals that
integrate multiple sensor measurement

Validic
About the carrot and the stick
Healthcare to become fun & engaging
Motivational Apps

“Sitting is the new
smoking”
Motivational games
Wearable games

Multiple sensors (bend sensors,
heart rate) and feedback tech
(speakers, shakers, LED screen)
Social peer pressure
Improving eating habits

The Eatery
(Massive Health -> Jawbone)
Employer as health coach
Losing weight by betting money
Moving for a free ride

Moscow
trainstation
Real-time, remote physical therapy
Kinect-style video capture

Home team therapy
Virtual exercising

VirtualWare

DevMotion
On a digital sofa
Kinect-powered depression detector

SimSensei
Get your stats – health kiosks

Healthspot

https://higi.com/
Mobile healthcare, literally

WellCar
Healthcare gets local
Prevention in the car

Nissan
3. Healthcare will become attractive,
fun, engaging & nicely designed
Your average labtest impossible to decypher?
Personalising health records
A trusted 1st or 2nd opinion

IBM Watson to App cloud
Robodocs: doctors talk to and monitor
patients remotely

RP-VITA robots,
iRobot Corp
Help people remember to take their pills
as prescribed

GlowCaps (Vitality)
Ingestible sensor, stomach acid-powered

Proteus Digital Health
Drug adherence to lottery access – given
pill taken yesterday
Drug adherence
Cancer fighting video game

http://www.re-mission2.org/games/ (HopeLab)
Healthcare design
Parkinson soup
Urban design plays key role in creating
healthy cities

Your neighborhood is why you’re fat
Environment stimulates walking
The future of healthcare
Predictive, Personalised, Participatory, Preventive, Augmented
Social network of (cancer) patients
Predicting the flu
Digital epidemiology

http://www.google.org/flutrends/be/#BE
Healthcare design meets social

Kinsa
Citizen science
Including the public in
research outside the lab

SciStarter
Future of healthcare
* Not about being sick, but about you staying well & healthy
* Consumer-driven: social, attractive, addictive, engaging
* Predictive, Personalised, Participatory, Preventive, Augmented
Contact
Prof. Dr. Koen Kas

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koen.kas@inbioveritas.com
http://inbioveritas.com/
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@kaskoen
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