Social Public Health Infrastructure for a Smart City Citizen Patient: Advances and Opportunities for AI Driven Disruptive Innovation

Promoting health, preventing disease, and prolonging life are central to the success of any smart city initiative. Today, wireless communication, data infrastructure, and low-cost sensors such as lifestyle and activity trackers are making it increasingly possible for cities to collect, collate, and innovate on developing a smart infrastructure. Combining this with AI driven disruptions for human behavior change can fundamentally transform delivery of public health for the citizen patient[4]. Most urban development government bodies consider such infrastructure to be a distributed ecosystem consisting of physical infrastructure, institutional infrastructure, social infrastructure and economic infrastructure[1]. In this talk we will focus mostly on the social health infrastructure component and first showcase some of the recent initiatives created with the purpose of addressing health which is a key social goal, as a smart city goal. Specifically we will discuss how technical advances in IoT, recommendation systems, geospatial computing, and digital health therapeutics are creating a new future. Yet, such advances are not addressing the issues of making healthy behavior change sustainable with broad health equity for those that need it most[3]. Overwhelming nature of siloed apps and digital health solutions which often leave the citizens overwhelmed and those most in need underserved[2]. This talk highlights the advances and opportunities created when behavioral economics and public health combine with AI and cloud infrastructure to make smart public health initiatives personalized to each individual citizen patient.