Continuous health monitoring: An opportunity for precision health

Sanjiv S Gambhir; T Jessie Ge; Ophir Vermesh; Ryan Spitler; Garry E Gold

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.abe5383

Continuous health monitoring: An opportunity for precision health

Sci Transl Med. 2021 Jun 9;13(597):eabe5383. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe5383.

Authors

Sanjiv S Gambhir^{1

2

3

4}, T Jessie Ge^{5

6}, Ophir Vermesh¹, Ryan Spitler^{7

2

4}, Garry E Gold^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
² Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
³ Department of Bioengineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
⁴ Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
⁵ Department of Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
⁶ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. rspitler@stanford.edu.

PMID: 34108250
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abe5383

Abstract

Continuous health monitoring and integrated diagnostic devices, worn on the body and used in the home, will help to identify and prevent early manifestations of disease. However, challenges lie ahead in validating new health monitoring technologies and in optimizing data analytics to extract actionable conclusions from continuously obtained health data.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Precision Medicine*