This document summarizes a presentation on "Living Well Through Data" given by Steven Dean at Rock Health in partnership with Mount Sinai School of Medicine on October 2, 2012. The presentation discussed how self-tracking of various health metrics can provide insights and help solve medical mysteries. It noted that the Quantified Self movement has grown to include over 70 meetup groups and 10,000 members who share how tracking things like food, exercise, sleep, mood and other factors helped them learn about their health and make improvements.

1. Living Well Through Data
Rock Health in partnership with Mount Sinai School of Medicine
October 2, 2012
QS: The Patient-Driven
Health Revolution
Steven Dean
@sgdean

2. My start

4. BLUE! BLUE-! YELLOW-! YELLOW! ORANGE! ORANGE-
GREEN! GREEN! BROWN!
Rate of spilling sugar!

5. 48

9. 68 67 66
42
RESTING HEART RATE

10. QS as a disciplined
practice.

11. Sep 1, 2011
8:30 am

12. Sep 2, 2011
8:00 am

13. Sep 6, 2011
7:13 am

14. Sep 8, 2011
8:05 am

15. Forms in Google Docs

19. QS start

20. Seth’s Blog
self-experimentation

21. The Quantified Self blog
launches 2007

23. New York QS
June 2009

25. 1. What did you do?
2. How did you do it?
3. What did you learn?

27. memory calories genomics
weight steps diabetes
cognition goals breathing
exercise relationships allergies
food words hearing loss
mood silence stress
sleep arguments placebos
time sex dating
money dreams happiness
location books read ...

29. The Quantified Self
Over 70 meetups
Over 10,000 members
Over 300 videos

30. QS show & tell talks

32. How visualizing health
problems could help
solve medical
mysteries

35. What Katie learned...
• Antibiotics made her sicker.
• Doctors are skeptical of
another patient-created graph.
• But health visualizations can
be a great storytelling tool.
• Memories are data too.

37. Would adopting a
carbohydrate-restricted
diet result in a statistically
significant difference in
blood glucose?

39. What Jana learned...
• Statistically significant change
• Took time to adjust insulin
• Visualizations help a lot

42. If we can measure it,
we can improve it.

43. Walter De Brouwer

44. QS grows

56. Data.

57. Data. Probably not.

58. Data. Probably not.
Information.

59. Data. Probably not.
Information. Sure.

60. Data. Probably not.
Information. Maybe.
Knowledge.

61. Data. Probably not.
Information. Maybe.
Knowledge. Definitely.

62. Thank you.
Steven Dean
bit.ly/qslivingwell
twitter.com/sgdean