Personal
health is widely
seen as the future of healthcare, with a focus on the
4Ps: Prediction,
Prevention, Personalisation and Participatory
healthcare. This is
distinct from pharmacogenomics or stratified therapies,
but focuses instead on
tracking our health – rather than illness – using
wearable sensors and other
home/wifi sensors to measure our physical state over
time. This is a data-rich
context in which Computational Intelligence (CI) can
provide a wide range of
tools for health-related knowledge extraction. Trends
can then be identified
which are used for a range of purposes from motivation
for regular exercising
to prevention and early screening for unexpected
deterioration. Where
individuals suffer from chronic conditions, this
approach can help to target
the right intervention at the right time. This
topic has links with
health vaults, with avatars, as well as supporting care
for the specific groups
such as the elderly. This is a topic in which data
integration is of key
importance and different types of data can be brought in
to provide context,
ranging from demographics to social media.
Topics
that are of interest to this session include (but are not
necessarily limited to):