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Closing the Loop: from Measuring to Improving Wellbeing with a Wearable Smart Patch

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Today’s wearable sensors track biomarkers of stress, but radical breakthroughs in consumer wellness are coming from technologies that can “close the loop”, providing clinical-grade, discreet biofeedback to users to improve emotional self-regulation. Our current understanding of emotion is the brain and body are in a tight feedback loop. By intervening in negative emotional states at the level of the body,...

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Biohacking Gets Personal: How Big Data and an Army of Sensors Changes Everything

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Information drives everything. From information theory one can derive thermodynamics, model the origin of the universe, or solve biological protein folding. Yet, our bodies have remained black boxes, understood generally in physiology textbooks, but obscure and opaque in individual life. But, this is changing. Hacking into our bodies now provides the rich monitoring we expect to use when we study...

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Health Sensors & IoT: The Digital Foundation we Need to deliver Wellness as a Service

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In 2006 we started Hexoskin as a “machine learning for health” company, then realized automated health intelligence will only be possible once we build the data infrastructure to feed the algorithms. Our wearable health sensors (smart clothing and other devices) are part of the answer to the question: how do you get the data you need to deliver Wellness as...

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How Scientific Wellness will Drive The Future of Health

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Healthcare is becoming more proactive and data-rich than anything before possible – and will increasingly focus on maintaining and enhancing wellness more than just reacting to disease. Lee Hood and I have recently launched a large-scale 100K wellness project that integrates genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomes, clinical chemistries and wearable devices of the quantified self to monitor wellness and disease. The...

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Optimizing your Health at Home using your Blood and your Smartphone

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One of the most important changes in health and medicine is the drive toward actionable data-driven insights and interventions. The need is undeniable. The future of healthcare is increasingly about prevention and reversal of chronic conditions In the future, your health care provider will be less well trained, younger, less experienced. He/she will be less likely to have the wisdom...

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