Showing posts with label health data climate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health data climate. Show all posts

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Unified health data climate

The future of health management and biosecurity is having always-on access to the health data climate of individuals, families, communities, and countries. A whole new era of health awareness and self-management could be possible. Ideally, health data streams would be automatically captured and parsed into a comprehensive tableau of status monitoring and action-taking.

Key health data streams (Figure 1):

  1. Genome - whole human genome sequence, abnormal tissue sequences (cancer, etc.)
  2. Phenotype - current status of a wide range of biophysical markers including blood-based organ-secreted proteins prognosticating disease, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and emotional state
  3. Diseasome - catalog of cumulative immune system exposures and predicted response to toxins
  4. Microbiome - microflora bacteria profile (gut, genital, skin, oral, etc.)
  5. Environmentome - external environment measures including air and water quality, pollen/allergens count

Figure 1: Key health data streams.