HIT X.0: The Untethered Doctor at HIMSS12 (Clip)

Great slide deck! The survey data are truly valuable and costly to acquire so thanks for sharing. I believe universal adoption and addition to data-driven health(care) management by the person will occur with the maturation of the anthropometric interface that is animated from human simulation outputs that are driven by digital human models. I don't have any mockups or prototypes to share yet--an animation is worth 10,000 words, right!?!

To my knowledge, no one has developed or prototyped such an interface for the life-death cycle nominally spanning 100 years (embryo through postmortem examination--virtual autopsy), yet. My concept of lifegraphs or the personal health graphs feature set of lifegraph will do so. Initialized by the parents' genetic data and lifegraphs, the digital human model is instantiated in the cloud or locally on an end system for human simulation and humanoid animation to facilitate planning one's health and healthcare resources, costs, tasks, goals, etc. from present to expected end-of-life. This is unheard of and I'd like your thoughts of creating a culture doing so as opposed to only mastering body hacking or self monitoring while reviewing archived health(care) data for long-term trends, answering questions, etc. You mentioned decision support for behavior change but that's a far cry from planning one's health conditions from present to expected death, even if it's the parents doing so for their 2 month old girl! Just think of the efforts, hours and services that people and business expend for wealth and estate planning.

I consider the anthropometric interface, done right, as the UI technology for defining and creating a Blue Ocean in the markets of health and healthcare management. The health and healthcare data are separate from the application layer that is modular in terms of rendering 3D (volumetric) graphics (if volumetric data exist), 3D (auralization) acoustics and 3D haptics besides handling all the semantics for multi-generational appeal. Each area has a vast body of knowledge and are at different levels of maturation that I will not discuss here.

Before, any true-color, skinned, immersive digit human is displayed graphically, acoustically and haptically, the data schemata needs to be defined and standardize, which I have not found either. the comprehensive set of human parameters (not medical device settings and its measurement metadata) just doesn't seem to exist under one cover, web site or web portal (free or for fee). There are medical dictionaries at universities like Columbia; Stanford has 3D imaging (multi-modal) labs; the FDA medical device section hasn't responded to my calls/inquiries so I'm left to believe a simple list of measurables at the genetic scale up to whole human doesn't exist.

So my question to you is exactly how many unique human parameters (forget about measurement accuracy, precision, frequency, etc. for now) are there regardless of the medical device accessibility to any given governmental legal entity, non-governmental legal entity (e.g., university lab or a commercial research lab) or natural person? I differentiate measureable, blood pressure for example, (by a device that calculates a value available via its human readable display and/or its API) from observable; observable (e.g., depression) being exclusively determined by human senses of another person's form, function (behavior), etc for who knows how long and in what configuration/condition and context before labeling the observation.