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In this fourth episode, Ardy Arianpour, CEO and Co-Founder of Seqster, shares why the future of your health data is a centralized view, controlled by you, pulled from wearables, genetic tests, logged nutritional intake as well as your medical records even if spread across medical institutions. He relates the unique ability and need to share our lifetime of health data transgenerationally.

Topics we discussed in this episode

Apple's acquisition of Gliimpse in 2016
Google's failed attempt of personal health data storage
Microsoft HealthVault
Apple Medical Records
Why Seqster is different from other services offering to collate your medical records
The consumer value of longitudinally matched data sets, particularly multi-generational
The hijacking of Electronic Medical Records for greater profit rather than patient care
The ability to provide a single unified view of our health data, spanning wearable devices, to lab tests such as genetics, to our electronic medical records even if spread over multiple institutions
The reluctance of orthodox healthcare to liberate our health data
The creation of a new legal framework to share our lifetime of health data with our family and/or society, posthumous

Show links

Seqster Website
Chain of Custody Wikipedia Entry
PatientBank Shutdown Notification Blog Post
National Institutes of Health (NIH) — All of Us Research Program Web Page
Gliimpse CrunchBase Entry
Picnic Health Website
Heads Up Health Website
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Wikipedia Entry
Affective Computing Wikipedia Entry
Google Health Wikipedia Entry
Stanford Medicine September 2018 White Paper: The Future of Electronic Health Records PDF
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal Book
Hyper Wellbeing 2016 Conference Video - Walter De Brouwer: From IA to AI in Healthcare
Microsoft HealthVault Web Page
HumanAPI Website
Apple Health Records Web Page