Book by Nasim Afsar: “It was built to react and manage illness only after symptoms occur and it’s not even succeeding at that: chronic disease rates climb relentlessly, outcomes worsen year after year, and health and care grow more expensive. Worse still, the person who should be at the center is treated as a vessel for their illness, only valued for the revenue they generate.
Meanwhile, healthcare systems, payers, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, and technology firms compete fiercely for their growth and survival. But no one is competing to make you healthier. We’ve reached a breaking point where the system doesn’t just fail; it actively harms people through preventable suffering and bankrupts families through inexcusable waste.
Enter Intelligent Health. A fundamental reimagining of health and care around a different center of gravity: you. It begins by unifying all your health and care data—clinical, behavioral, environmental, genetic—to see the complete picture of what shapes your health. It applies artificial intelligence to transform that data into actionable insight for today and predictive foresight about the future, catching problems before they cascade into crises. Most radically, it aligns the entire ecosystem of health and care around you.
Today, consumer health solutions multiply while outcomes stagnate. Costs spiral while access shrinks. Technology advances while coordination collapses. Intelligent Health offers what incremental reform cannot: a fundamental reimagining of health and care to create a system that is more human, more intelligent, and built to advance health…(More)”
