Innovations and technologies for health and wellness

Abstract

The technological revolution of the 21st Century has been impressive and mind boggling. It has a major impact in all the fields, but probably one with a highest impact is health. If we connect the speed impact and transformation of the technology with the importance for society of wellness and health and the millennial vision of here and now, instant responses open tremendous opportunities for technology to deliver the benefits that the individuals are looking for. Three basic concepts are fundamental elements that make health and well-being a specific target for technology to develop tools and processes of information evaluation and gathering that can make a difference in every human life. These 3 fundamental concepts of our human body are: 1- Structure 2- Function 3- Variations Having thorough technology to gather information from anthropometrics to body composition all the way through the nano level have created potent tools to observe the healthy parameters as well as the deviations that can signal the presence of a disease. The same applies for the physiology from the basics of organ and systems measurements to their interaction with biomechanics and molecular biology, genomics, proteomics that help to understand pathways, energy use and how to measure the evidence of an appropriate function to signify health. And finally, understanding that life models do not follow our rigid process for its outputs and throughputs and these variations can be analyzed and interpreted through statistics and bioinformatics to defy the ranges where health and wellness are present and the deviations that the disease produces. My intention is to show you several examples and applications where we can find the importance of this modeling to develop the tools and technologies that will benefit human kind in the following decades.