Cloud Medical: Personalized mobile healthcare led by cloud data storage technology

Americans are beginning to slowly adopt powerful technology to revolutionize the country's healthcare system: more and more advanced sensors and devices, less and less expensive personal genomics technologies, and increasingly large mobile applications An advantage allows consumers to make their own medical decisions and become the CEO of managing their own health.

With the popularization of Internet mobile devices, the United States medical health system is no longer the only treatment-oriented, today turned to prevention oriented. This will greatly save the medical costs in the United States. In the near future, consumers who keep exercising and eat better will enjoy lower health care, just as drivers with good driving records can enjoy lower car insurance.

In fact, the revolution came very timely. At present, more than two-thirds of all American adults are plagued by obesity. It is predicted that by 2020, the number of pre-diabetic and diabetic patients in the United States will exceed half of the total population, resulting in an annual economic burden of 500 billion U.S. dollars for the country. However, the exploration of mobile devices in the field of health care has brought hope to solve this problem.

Let's take a look at a set of data at the forefront of the health revolution:

According to data from Research and Markets, more than half of the 3.4 billion mobile users worldwide will have installed healthcare applications in mobile devices by 2017;

I expect that by 2017 at least 30% of U.S. consumers will wear wearable devices to track health data such as sleep, diet, exercise, heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar in this passive, non-invasive way;

According to market research firm ABI, as of 2017, the global health and fitness wearable device market is expected to reach 170 million units.

Hopefully, we'll soon see "killer" health apps of similar size to Spotify, Evernote. Currently, Samsung and Apple battle for the smart watch market battle intensified, according to technology blog Apple Insider estimates, iWatch listed in the first year of sales will reach 63 million units, and medical and health applications can significantly boost iWatch sales growth.

Cloud data storage technology leads the highly personalized mobile healthcare era

Soon, all mobile devices will be able to send users real-time health data to doctors, dietitians and fitness trainers who will be able to master the continuity of their health and work out the appropriate treatment or fitness options. With cloud data storage technology, we are entering a highly personalized mobile healthcare era.

In the near future, we will form a more efficient healthcare system where patients can talk more with their doctors via mobile phones, saving both parties time. It is estimated that currently 25% to 30% of hospital visits can be replaced by telephone, SMS and other digital means.

Personalized mobile medical care has entered our life, although this area is still in its infancy, but the potential is enormous. Here are some examples of medical mobile apps:

HeathTap is a mobile app that provides triage services. By asking a doctor questions, the user can determine which subject they need to see.

Welldoc has just released BlueStar, a physician-certified application that provides treatment recommendations for people with diabetes.

Asthmapolis automates the recording of asthma patient data via Bluetooth, providing them with personalized advice and asthma control.

Glow helps women record physiological cycles, guess the best time to conceive on a cycle-by-cycle basis, and provide information on how to increase the chance of getting pregnant.

Kaiser Permanente's mobile apps help users store medical data, make appointment appointments, email doctors, check lab results, and more. More than 4 million of Kaiser's 9 million users use the agency's online system.

MyFitnessPal provides users with a new way to lose weight and control nutritional intake. Personal trainers often say that nutrition balance accounts for 80% of all kinds of measures to maintain a healthy life and prevent diseases.

Wearable devices such as Fitbit, Jawbone UP, Nike Fuel, Misfit Shine, etc. track the user's motion through a three-axis accelerator to calculate the user's calorie burn value. In addition, such devices can analyze the user's sleep. Sales of such devices this year will exceed 8 million units, but this is only a starting point. The future of wearable devices will be able to provide users with accurate data on heart rate and other physiological indicators.

The key to the digital health revolution lies in the daily monitoring of personal data, which is "quantified self." Many companies want to be the leader in the trend of medical and health devices.

For example, I use MyFitnessPal to record my diet and exercise. With more than 40 million users, MyFitnessPal may have the largest database of diet and exercise in the world. This year, MyFitnessPal has APIs open to application developers. Now, I can bind myFitnessPal account to my devices Withings Scale, Jawbone UP and RunKeeper, and the data on those devices can be automatically synchronized with MyFitnessPal. As a result, I was able to restrain myself through the weight loss goals I crafted on MyFitnessPal while socializing with some of my friends, giving me the motivation to do so.

Fitness applications and equipment gamification

Adding gameplay elements to fitness apps and devices lets users team up with friends or colleagues to motivate them to earn points or trophies. Fitocracy, a fitness social application, sets a precedent for this. At Yahoo, Ms. Mei started a healthy walking competition with this app; users of sports monitoring apps, Strava, are keen on cycling and running miles and are even willing to be Strava's monthly subscribers to compete.

One day, when I had a security checkup at the airport, I found a Nike Fuel wristband on my staff's wrist. He was very excited to tell me that he had already got 1 million Fule points to lose weight more than 30 pounds.

However, despite the array of health technology products available today, the health revolution triggered by mobile apps and devices has just begun. At present, there are only a few applications with more than 20 million users (MyFitnessPal and RunKeeper only) and the potential of this market remains to be explored. As technology matures, such applications will provide more accurate data, analysis and more detailed advice to users around the world, and we will be able to get timely treatment and healthy habits through mobile healthcare.

From now on, this "Quantify Self" movement will gradually shift from highly technological to human-oriented. Health-based applications and devices will provide personalized advice to users based on the data to help them change their bad habits and help them with related groups, doctors and Fitness coach to establish contact. Humanization is a key factor because users need reliable helpers and emotional support.

Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has argued that the algorithm could replace 80% of doctors. But I think we need a two-pronged approach: we have an automated computing system that allows users to communicate with the best experts in real time and share the data with experts via mobile phones.

In addition, the business models for such applications and devices will also gradually shift to paid service and marketization models, making real changes and creating real profits by establishing channels for consumers to buy expert services. What we face will be a healthy revolution that brings health to consumers and reduces the cost of health care for the country.

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