A syndromic analysis employs methods from informatics and statistics to make inferences about your unique constellation of ailments.
Your medical labels - your signs, symptoms, diseases, and diagnoses - lack context. By examining the unique constellation of patterns in your body and mind, we may be able to find a pattern that sheds light on our past, present, and future.
The attainment of well-being requires a coordinated series of steps to move you from your starting point to your destination. To chart such a trajectory, we can draw from the history of the airline industry, specifically the emergence of airfare consolidators, to help us envision - and usher in - the information revolution that the wellness industry must undergo.
We need tools to better organize, standardize, and harmonize wellness information, and the primary tool that undergirds this new wellness informatics is a wellness knowledge graph. For wellness, the overarching problem that a wellness knowledge graph seeks to address is “What is right for my well-being?” In this article, I explore this question to elicit design principles that will guide the development of a new wellness knowledge graph.
Wellness information is growing in volume and variety, but the answers we seek are increasingly buried in the noise. Informatics, the science of information, provides a means of objectively organizing this complexity in wellness. A new "wellness informatics" would enable us to create novel technologies that could provide unbiased and comprehensive answers to our wellness questions.
A theory on the origins of IBS, for those of us with the anxious variant of the illness.
