consumer health startup trends 2013
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Consumer Health Startup Trends 2013 given by Jihoon Jeong at Health 2.0 Seoul Chapter's first eventTRANSCRIPT
Consumer Health Startup Trends 2013Jihoon Jeong, MD., MPH., PhD
Director, Institute for IT Convergence, Myongji HospitalAdjunct Professor, Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST
General Trend
The Year of Digital Health Touch Point of Change
Explosive new technology: Innovation across a wide variety of areas (gaming, manufacturing, communications, etc.)
The pressing need to advance healthcare and the Affordable Care Act
Increasing level of patient / caregiver connectivity
The empowerment of the “quantified self” in health
The evolution of pharmaceutical science will move therapy to include preventative care, gene therapy and other innovations.
Big Data and the electronic medical record
The increasing role of venture capital in digital health
10 Predictions for the Connected Health IT Market in 2013
Consumers Will Begin to Abandon PCs and Embrace Mobile for Internet Use
Behavior Change Will Take Center Stage
Consumer Engagement Will Increasingly Require Multidisciplinary Teams
Home Is Where the Health Is: Interest in Remote Patient Monitoring Will Rise Again
Experimentation with Social Media Will Continue, But Challenges Still Persist
Accountable Care Initiatives Will Lay Foundational Groundwork Before Investing Widely in Connected Health
The Doctor Will See You Now … Online
Large Payers Will Become Technology Suppliers for Connected Health
Platform as a Service Will Emerge as a Viable Platform for Health Information Exchange
The Internet of Things Will Come to Healthcare
by IDG Insights
Mobile Health in 2013
Consumer Health Apps Segmentation
Future of mHealth
2013 CESMore than 220 companies showcased their health-and-fitness products (30% up!)
HealthSpot
Tricorder
Where goes money?
Where goes money?
Four common themes
Genetics and Personalized Medicine
China’s Genome FactoryBGI-Shenzhen: completely sequenced some 50,000 human genomes
Whole Genome Sequencing Price: $3000~4000
Within the next decade: the cost of sequencing a human genome will fall to $200~ $300. BGI will become a force in assembling a global “bio-Google”
Solid-State Sequencer
The Future is Already Here