Hi, I'm Quenton Bubb and I'm from Brooklyn, New York. I'm Andrea Fisher and I'm from
Yonkers, New York. My name is Anthony Buzzanco and I'm from Long Beach
California. I'm Michael Dacre and I'm from England
in the United Kingdom. Hi everyone. I'm San Vijayraman from
Sacramento, California
You're launching your career in medicine at the perfect time. Never before have
the biomedical sciences had such a convergence of technological progress
and the rapidity of innovation.These advances drive our ambitious vision of
healthcare that we've described as Precision Health. By leveraging our era's
most sophisticated technological and scientific resources we can not only
cure disease before it strikes but prevent it from striking at all.
Humanwide is a pilot that we are conducting in a primary care clinic in Santa Clara.
We at that clinic have also implemented a team-based care model which we think
is going to help us transform what we're doing in primary care. The focus of Humanwide
is to consider how can we leverage the best of the art and science of
medicine that we have at Stanford and across the country and the world --
technology, genomics, diagnostics -- how do we leverage that so that we are focusing
on prevention and proactive care to prevent disease before it strikes. When I
was a medical student all of medical knowledge doubled every seven years.
It now doubles every 120 days. It's very hard for the physician of the future to
be able to keep up with that rate of medical knowledge. A Precision Health
approach that marries artificial intelligence with continuous monitoring
and multiple testing modalities like pharmacogenomics. I mean this is the kind
of information we need in the future to really take care of our patient and
provide the best outcomes. Humanwide is an effort to take the diverse sciences
underlying a more precise approach to assessing and favorably affecting a
person's health and bring it in a practical
way into the everyday operation of primary care. Implementing change in
health care is really hard, whether it's a small change or a big change and so
the learnings that we will get from the evaluation just is one more example
where we'll help healthcare move forward. Our big findings, this is really
from the baseline, number one Humanwide's really appealing to patients so
this is good news. It was really popular among patients,
they they loved the primary care one-on-one attention and it seemed to
support patient engagement, self-management and early detection of
disease. We did notice technical glitches. Pretty much everybody even people who
were very savvy had trouble some sort of trouble with the digital health.
There was a dedicated hour with each patient to get everything set up where
they had to come into the clinic. And even then things could fall apart or the
Bluetooth could stop talking to each other. I think getting the technology to
communicate with each other, that's an opportunity that's an opportunity for
entrepreneurs I think as well to come up with some platforms that're a bit better
integrated than the ones we have today. As we present this at different
conferences we're realizing that we're actually kind of the first to understand
the technology and know which vendors are good and which aren't and so that's
actually been really helpful for us. We feel like we're kind of ahead of where
we feel like this consumer movement is going. I mean this is a very special
clinic. You're each a very special person and I can just tell
walking into the clinic how much energy and engagement there is. How can we use
Humanwide to, or the the rollout of Humanwide to other clinics, other locations to
achieve similar results for the patients but also similar levels of staff engagement.
So what I really enjoyed about participating in the Humanwide program
aside from my number one goal which was getting the pharmacogenomics testing
was just having that frequent one-on-one time with my doctor. This program was
very helpful for me because I find out about my body, I find out about my health.
To be aware of my blood pressure, to be aware of my kidney function, and be aware
of my blood glucose, to be aware of my weight, all that is turning into a
lifestyle instead of just a trip to the doctor. Now I'm seeing life in a
different perspective. We should not worry about what is going to happen. Just
live the life, like you know there are so many other people who suffer more.
I'm really motivated about this program because I see the results real time.
It helps me improve how I deal with my lifestyle, how I eat and my diet
and basically my personal health. After six months of implementation of Humanwide
we have a better sense of the value it brings in healthcare. Care teams
are now enabled to provide more proactive precise and personalized care
more than they ever have been before. Humanwide represents the beginning of a
movement. This is just the beginning. Humanwide has the potential to be revolutionary.