Jakob E. Bardram was welcomed as a new professor in pervasive healthcare at DTU Computer and the Institute of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen.
Personal Health Technology – Pervasive Monitoring and Personalized Intervention using Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Computing Technology
"The healthcare systems in Denmark, Europe, and Worldwide are facing significant challenges due to the ageing of the population, lack of healthcare professionals, and increased budgetary pressure."
The healthcare systems in Denmark, Europe, and Worldwide are facing significant challenges due to the ageing of the population, lack of healthcare professionals, and increased budgetary pressure. It has been argued, that the contemporary healthcare system is in crisis as it is expensive, reactive, inefficient, and focused largely on one size fits all treatment of events late in the disease stage. And that the answer is personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory medicine.
In this talk, I will outline how Personal Health Technology plays a central role in a move towards such a personalized, predictive, preventive, and participatory healthcare model. Personal Health Technology is based on mobile, wearable, and ubiquitous computing research, which has led to new techniques and technologies for continuously collection of data on human health and behavior, including detailed measurements of core physiological parameters, physical activity, social interaction, and sleep quality. Continuous and unobtrusive sensing of health and behavior has tremendous potential to support the lifelong personalized management of illnesses by:
- acting as an early warning system by predicting changes in health and well-being,
- delivering context-aware, personalized micro-interventions to patients when and where they need them, and,
- by significantly accelerating patient awareness and insight of their illness.
In this talk, I will give an overview of our work on turning sensor-enabled mobile devices into health and well-being monitors and instruments for administering real-time/real-place interventions. This will form the basis for an outlook into my future research agenda on 'Behavioral Phenotyping', which – similar to the Human Genome project – will be directed toward large-scale deployment of personal health technology for collecting behavioral data.