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WHAT IF THERE WERE AN EASY WAY TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WHO HAD THE SAME HEALTH PROBLEMS AS YOU? THAT'S JUST ONE IDEA FROM THE WINNERS OF THE KNIGHT FOUNDATION'S CHALLENGE FOR NEW TOOLS THAT USE HEALTH DATA. Camden Health Explorer : An interactive tool that aggregates health data and medical insurance claim data and maps them by both geography and demographics. The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers hopes the tool can help hospitals and healthcare providers target their resources more effectively. ■ Crisis Text Line : Created by DoSomething.org, this free text messaging counseling service for youth has already served 14,000 teens during its beta test in 2013. In the future, DoSomething plans to launch a national service and create an anonymous database providing information for and about teens in crisis. ■ Homebrew Sensing Project : This project from Public Laboratory will use the Knight cash to build cheap chemical analysis tools that can be connected to smartphones and laptops. The ultimate goal is to allow anyone to track hazardous chemicals in their neighborhoods, making it easier to also track associated health effects. ■ Ohana API: Created by a group of Code for America Fellows, Ohana is a database of health, human, and social services for the public to use. ■ Open Humans Network : In an attempt to speed up medical research, this network from PersonalGenomes.org will allow anyone to share his or her medical data with researchers. It will also establish collaborative data sharing guidelines for researchers hoping to use the network data in their studies. ■ Positive Deviance Journalism : Coming from the Solutions Journalism Network, Positive Deviance will track data sets for signs of so-called "positive deviance" in health, or hints of promising results that could eventually be big news stories. ■ SafeUseNow: This project from Principled Strategies aims to cut d

"Instead of waiting for doctor visits, Aetna's new CarePass app will correlate all your health data to try to give you a picture of your health and what you can do to make it better." Much technological disruption to the health care industry has come from startups with an outside perspective: for example, ZocDoc, which has transformed the way people find new doctors; InQuicker, which lets people reserve a spot in line at an emergency room; Mango, which gamifies the routine chore of taking daily meds, and countless other new startups and apps that we've profiled (and tens of thousands more that we haven't). However, a new tech initiative at Aetna is an example of innovation and disruption from within. The company recently announced its plans to offer a health care app called CarePass which would help its customers monitor their own health care data.

"In a trial, 50 firefighters from Victoria's County Fire Authority swallowed an Equivital EQ02 LifeMonitor capsule to monitor their body's reaction during a training exercise. While they evacuated 20 people from a burning building, a thermometer and a transmitter within the pill sent data to a device on the chest, which then transmitted vital data to an external computer on the firefighters' skin temperature, heart rate and respiration rate. If their core body temperature is increasing too quickly, firefighters can be removed from the fire to a rehabilitation area to cool down. After a few days, the pill is expelled from the body the good old fashioned way."

"Sans surprise, l'une des toutes premières initiatives de Renault et PSA Peugeot Citroën en matière de Big Data concerne la voiture connectée. Un terrain sur lequel les deux constructeurs ont tous deux lancé des projets concrets. Chez Renault, un premier chantier a été initié en 2013. Le groupe a profité du lancement de ses premiers modèles de voiture électrique pour se doter d'une infrastructure visant à fédérer dans ses data centers (sur système EMC) les données collectées par les capteurs de ses véhicules en circulation. De son côté, PSA Peugeot Citroën a fait appel plus récemment à l'expertise et aux technologies d'IBM, qui fait de l'Analytics son cheval de bataille, pour l'accompagner dans la démarche. A partir des données techniques issues des voitures, "notre objectif est en premier lieu d'optimiser la conception des véhicules en vue d'en améliorer la qualité", commente Brigitte Courtehoux, directeur de la Business Unit voitures et services connectés de PSA Peugeot Citroën"

"With more body-tracking gadgets that can record everything from running blood pressure to respiration to perspiration rates and more, the next question is - so what? What are we supposed to make of the massive amounts of data that these constantly tracking devices amass?"

I wear a health tracking watch that monitors minute-by-minute my heart rate, calories burned, steps taken, and if I'm sleeping. Anyone who had access to my data, like a spouse, could tell when I was exercising. Most importantly, they would know if I was having sex - and how intense it was. Indeed, I inadvertently discovered that people knew whether I was engaging in sexual congress after I gave my health tracker data to a friend and he wryly quibbed about my night time activities. I instantly realized that it will become far more difficult for anyone to cheat on a spouse or fake an orgasm, thanks to a radical transparency in daily exertion that will follow health trackers as they become ubiquitous.

TellSpec brings together laser spectroscopy, nanophotonics, and a unique mathematical algorithm in a revolutionary hand-held consumer device that can analyze the chemical composition of any food in less than 20 seconds. The TellSpec handheld device beams a low-powered laser at the food you wish to analyze, measures the reflected light with a spectrometer, and sends the data via your smart phone, computer, or tablet to TellSpec's servers in the cloud. Those servers use this data to deduce information about your food that is of interest to you. This information is then displayed on your computer, tablet or smart phone so you can intelligently decide if you want to buy or eat the food.

"The Human Connectome Project aims to provide an unparalleled compilation of neural data, an interface to graphically navigate this data and the opportunity to achieve never before realized conclusions about the living human brain."

worried well, le bien-être inquiétant "A few hospitals are also exploring how to manage the data that is flowing in from health and fitness-concerned patients, whom many in Silicon Valley refer to as the "worried well." Beth Israel's Halamka said that many of the 250,000 patients in his system had data from sources such as Jawbone's Up activity tracker and wirelessly connected scales. "Can I interface to every possible device that every patient uses? No. But Apple can," he said."

La physique sociale, c'est ce qui arrive quand le Big Data rencontre la science sociale

"En collaboration avec l'Institute of Culinary Education (ICE), la firme a décidé de se lancer dans la cuisine cognitive, à travers le programme Computational creativity. Watson a ainsi recoupé quantités d'informations fournies par l'ICE, ainsi que des milliers de recettes, pour mettre au point de nouveaux plats. Une formidable opportunité pour les chefs : ils pourront ainsi s'essayer à de nouveaux assemblages d'ingrédients et de saveurs, développer des recettes en tenant compte de préoccupations spécifiques en matière de santé, s'attaquer à des facteurs tels que la durabilité et peut-être même créer de nouveaux produits pour répondre à des problématiques importantes telles que la faim dans le monde.   « L'idée de la cuisine cognitive est que les machines et les humains travaillent ensemble pour donner naissance à un système d'analyse très complexe qui puise ses données dans la chimie, la culture alimentaire et les préférences gustatives, afin d'aider les chefs à innover. », précise Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM Research."

"Cette couverture baptisée 'Happiness Blanket' est composée de LED à fibres optiques qui changent de couleur en fonction de l'état de sérénité de l'utilisateur. Reliée à un casque posé sur la tête du passager, via Bluetooth, celle-ci transpose en temps réel les ondes cérébrales en couleurs : ainsi lorsque le passager est calme, détendu ou dort profondément, la couverture est bleue ; lorsqu'il est stressé ou anxieux, la couverture devient rouge."

"Fashion brands are deploying mannequins equipped with technology used to identify criminals at airports to watch over shoppers in their stores. Retailers are introducing the EyeSee, sold by Italian mannequin maker Almax SpA, to glean data on customers much as online merchants are able to do"

Version longue et originale de l'article précédemment linké "Creating a repository of every FDA-approved replacement part for amputees, to make it easier for them to find the best ways to rebuild their bodies."

"Human API is the health data infrastructure healthcare providers have been waiting for. By collecting patient data from over 50 sources, and unifying it into a single pipeline, we can provide analytics-based, dynamic-care experiences for all patients."

Human API agrége quelques 50 sources de données de santé... On ne sait pas d'où elles viennent, mais le produit existe...

"La Sécurité sociale britannique a donné son blanc-seing à un cabinet privé pour utiliser les services de cloud de Google pour traiter les données issues de millions d'hospitalisations."

Un indicateur temps réel et en open data sur l'incidence des syndromes allergiques en France et par région.

Whistle - http://www.whistle.com - est un collier pour chien qui permet de recueillir ses données d'activité. Et la startup aimerait le transformer en réseau social pour animaux, permettant de documenter son activité, de le connecter à ses relations... Nick Wingfield pour le NYTimes revient également sur Whistle et d'autres startups proposant des produits numériques pour nos animaux de compagnie : http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/every-dog-has-its-data/ et souligne combien ces objets intéressent les chercheurs vétérinaires ainsi que les sociétés qui vendent des produits et aliments pour nos animaux domestiques. En évoquant également les technologies qui s'intéressent à la solitude des animaux de compagnie comme https://www.dropcam.com ou http://petcube.com qui nous permettent de jouer avec eux à distance... quand ceux-ci s'ennuient à la maison et vous au bureau.