QS: The Patient-Driven Health Revolution

Living Well Through DataRock Health in partnership with Mount Sinai School of MedicineOctober 2, 2012

Steven Dean @sgdean

My start

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QS as a disciplined practice.

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Forms in Google Docs

QS start

Seth’s Blogself-experimentation

The Quantified Self bloglaunches 2007

New York QSJune 2009

1. What did you do?2. How did you do it?3. What did you learn?

memoryweightcognitionexercisefoodmoodsleeptimemoneylocation

caloriesstepsgoalsrelationshipswordssilenceargumentssexdreamsbooks read

genomicsdiabetesbreathingallergieshearing lossstressplacebosdatinghappiness...

The Quantified SelfOver 70 meetupsOver 10,000 membersOver 300 videos

QS show & tell talks

How visualizing health problems could help solve medical mysteries

What Katie learned...• Antibiotics made her sicker.• Doctors are skeptical of

another patient-created graph.• But health visualizations can

be a great storytelling tool.• Memories are data too.

Would adopting a carbohydrate-restricted diet result in a statistically significant difference in blood glucose?

What Jana learned...• Statistically significant change• Took time to adjust insulin• Visualizations help a lot

If we can measure it,we can improve it.

Walter De Brouwer

QS grows

Data.

Data. Probably not.

Data. Probably not.Information.

Data. Probably not.Information. Sure.

Data. Probably not.Information. Maybe.Knowledge.

Data. Probably not.Information. Maybe.Knowledge. Definitely.

Thank you.

Steven Deanbit.ly/qslivingwell

twitter.com/sgdean