Health Diffusion
To be or not to be....
What is it to be? What defines us? What is a human being?
Most of the people might agree that we define ourselves as a mix of body, mind and soul. Therefor also the definition of health and wellbeing is close to how our body mind and soul feel. We feel healthy when our body is fine, when our mind is working well and when our soul is in the feel-good mood.
This might be a little bit different for each individual. Some have more focus on the body fitness and others care very well about their mind or soul. I believe that individual health and individual wellbeing are factors that are very close to us, almost like the thing we call ?me“ or "I".
For this reason, health has a huge value for each individual itself and for the social environment the person lives in because a healthy person adds value to the community by being able to support with physical power or a clever mind.
Nowadays it is becoming easier to create a true picture of individual and personal human health. And in the close future it would even be possible to create a true picture of your future health. Exponential technology development in many fields, from AI to robotics and computing power are the base for this grand enablement.
These processes lead to what I would call ?Health Diffusion“, because we start to realize that almost all aspects of our daily behavior affect our health. What we eat, how we move from A to B, how we are treated by others and how we treat others and even how we sleep or what kind of music we hear. So health is diffusing into all aspects of life.
Slowly but steadily and increasing, more and more use cases for healthy applications come up to peoples minds - even not having to do with classical health sector companies like insurances, hospitals or the pharmaceutical industry. They come from startups, entrepreneurs or other sectors. They are looking to the health sector, seeing needs and opportiunities, challenges and solutions.
A good example is the automotive industry. They are willing to move into the health field, not only because the car has a unique potential for early disease detection but for other applications and services as well because in the close future the time we spend inside a care will be very valuable. Therefor the inside of a car will become a very important point of sale for almost everything, including consulting a doctor. Will the classic car companies realize that they have to open their view and change their perspective? Or will startups, Amazon or others conquer the upcoming health market? Because the big technology companies already moved in. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, just to name some of them. They already know that health is a big field of the next 10+ years.
I personally believe, that creating healthier solutions is possible in almost every sector I’d like to end with the invitation to all of you of thinking about your sector, your branch where you work in. Is there potential for healthier solutions for all of us? I love to think about these possibilities. Just as one example, that is why we started to create "Automotive Health" concepts and solutions in early 2015 and developed this new field.
But this is just the beginning...
What would you do in your sector to improve individual health?
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