The document outlines the future of healthcare, emphasizing a shift towards personalized, participatory, predictive, and preventive care. It discusses advancements in genomic medicine and self-monitoring technologies, highlighting the importance of consumer engagement and fun in healthcare. The author calls for a transformation in healthcare delivery, making it more social and focused on wellness rather than just treating illness.

1. The future of healthcare and the
pleasure to consume iT
Prof. Dr. Koen Kas
Zorgidee 2013
Hasselt
February 07, 2013

2. Towards personalised, participatory,
predictive & preventive healthcare

3. “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)

4. The Chinese paid their doctor to remain healthy
As soon as they got sick, they no longer had to pay

5. From 100€ spend on healthcare,1€ goes to
prevention - and 90€ to last 2 years of our lives

6. Why do we regularly check oil and water level
in our car, but not the status of our body?

7. Why do we ask about the weather, but not
about our body tomorrow?

8. 1. Age of Genomic medicine

10. Personal genome analysers

11. Cancer
Collection of rare diseases

12. Improved disease classification
changes treatment outcome

13. Cancer drugs get personal / precise
Treatment ‘V600E BRAF’

14. Cancer mouse Avatars

15. From 1 drop mom’s blood test for
3.500 hereditary diseases

16. Life build/executed
from 6 layers code (-omes)
• Genome
• Epigenome -
methylome
• Transcriptome
• Proteome
• Metabolome
• Microbiome

17. Our genome interacts
with the world around us

18. 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

19. 2. Age of self monitoring
Smartphones, devices, Apps

20. Quantified self: from geeks to 6M consumers
Nike Fuelband (x LoseIt!) FitBit Flex

21. Wireless activity tracker
Shine (Misfit Wearables)

22. Star Trek -like tricorder
Thermometer Scanadu Scout (2013)

23. Blood glucose meters – setting goals
iBGStar Blood Glucose Meter
WaveSense Diabetes Manager

24. Heart monitor in FDA-approved iPhone case
AliveCor

25. Diagnose ear infections at home
Otoscope (CellScope)

26. Remote eye exams
iExaminer (Welch Allyn)

27. Home lung health test
SpiroSmart (Univ Wash, US)

28. Track, score & offer advice on sleep
patterns
Lark: App & armband

29. Contact lens embedded with a chip to
measure eye pressure
For people with or at risk of
glaucoma (Sensimed)

30. Doctors will prescribe smart phone apps
But an App will not cure cancer
Consumer health - seasonal allergy
mngmt
Doctor’s office - appointment booking
-> exchange messages with practice
Physical therapy - help patients
remember practice exercises at home

31. Smartphone Apps melanoma detection
Sensitivity from 7% to 98% (Study 01/13)
MelApp
(Health Discovery Operation)

32. 3. Healthcare will become attractive,
fun, engaging & nicely designed

33. Healthcare to become fun & engaging
Motivational Apps
“Sitting is the new
smoking”

34. Healthcare to become fun and engaging
Online genome games and robots
Popchillas World (Interbots)

35. Real-time, remote physical therapy
Kinect-style video capture
Home team therapy

36. Your average labtest impossible to decypher?
Personalising health records

37. Why do we post holiday pictures on Facebook,
but do we carry our X-ray pictures in a brown
envelope from Dr to Dr ?

38. Viewing & annotating Radiology images
Mobile MIM
(FDA-approved)

39. Why do we store our kids’ blood group or
vaccination dates on lousy sheet of paper or
booklet we loose ?

40. System for storing family’s health records
HealthVault, Microsoft

41. Robodocs: doctors talk to and monitor
patients remotely
RP-VITA robots, iRobot Corp

42. Help people remember to take their pills
as prescribed
GlowCaps (Vitality)

43. Ingestible sensor, stomach acid-powered
Proteus Digital Health

44. Drug adherence to lottery access – given
pill taken yesterday

45. 4. Healthcare will become social

46. Growing patient awareness - Participation
Healthcare will become social

47. Predicting the flu
Google flu trends (http://www.google.org/flutrends/be/#BE)

48. Predicting the flu, II
Epidemiological algorithm scans your tweets

49. Improving eating habits
The Eatery
(Massive Health -> Jawbone)

50. Amongst top healthcare cies will be a
software cie <10Y from now
xx

51. IBM Watson supercomputer
Cancer patient management

52. Car industry

53. Healthcare Innovation economy
2011-> 2013: 1-> 100 healthcare startup
incubators & accelerators

54. Money towards digital healthcare

55. Future of healthcare
 Less about being sick, but about staying well & healthy
 Consumer-driven: social, attractive, addictive, engaging
 Participatory & Personalised -> Predictive & Preventive

56. Contact gegevens
Prof. Dr. Koen Kas
E koen.kas@inbioveritas.com
W http://inbioveritas.com/
L be.linkedin.com/in/koenkas
T @kaskoen