Part II: Building the Toolkit for Person-Centered Health Analytics

Introduction to Part II

In Part I, I defined the technical cornerstones of pchA including high definition data from a multitude of sources; connected devices to gather, share, and connect with the data; health social networks to democratize the data, make meaning of it, and bolster engagement; and advanced computing power to collect, store, integrate, and analyze the data.

I suggested that the purpose of pchA is to support the attainment of a long and healthy life. In order to do this, in this epidemic of lifestyle related chronic diseases, people need to concentrate on the 5 behaviors of everyday life and improve and maintain these behaviors as needed over the course of their ...

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