What we get from >$3.4 Trillion/year in health care costs in the USA which is 43rd rank in the world in terms of life expectancy with > 18% of GDP?

• 60% false positives for mass screening (mammography and prostate cancer screen)
• 1 in 4 harmed in hospitals
• 12 M serious diagnostic errors
•  3 M with un-diagnosed diseases
• 75% unresponsiveness to leading drugs
•  med errors and adverse events

Health consumers must be part of the health care equation, own their health data and use health data for healthy and unhealthy population to find holistic health cures and preventative healing ways. Based on the following factors, health consumers can effect their health by making lifestyle changes and ensuring excellent medical care.

• 55% environmental and social factors
• 20% behavioral factors
• 5% genetics
• 20% medical care

Health consumers must be as knowledgeable as their health care providers in being proactive with their health, detecting any changes from normal, using high tech tools as the enabler for high touch in medicine and preventive health care.  Science is enabling our care providers and health consumers to be more effective in delivering care and empowering all of us to be proactive about our health.

Healthier lives can be achieved if we collaborate with science, academia, Google Verily and other precision medicine programs to collect, organize and activate health data.

The internet and high tech are enablers for high touch in medicine.

Source: Big Data Precision Health, Stanford CA May 24-25, 2017