PERSONALIZING PREVENTION: The Future of Health Technology
By Gillian Christie, Health Innovation Analyst, Vitality Institute and
Derek Yach, Executive Director, Vitality Institute
An era of personalized prevention is taking hold across populations globally. In 1926, rudimentary technological applications for epidemiological surveillance were piloted. In 1995, Nelson Mandela demonstrated the potential of technology by endorsing TELECOM. In 2014, mobile health enables us to track our health wirelessly and in real-time; tomorrow, health technology will be smaller, faster, friendlier, and individualized to usher in personalized prevention. …Continue reading