The Importance of Measuring Healthcare Data in Daily Life

摘要

Lifestyle related diseases have been impacting seriously individuals' quality of life and social healthcare systems including medical affairs. The best way to prevent them is lifestyle modification but it will be not so easy to continue the modification. Additionally, effective and efficient modification requires personalization like tailor-made. Lifestyle consists of the main factors such as exercise, sleep, and nutrition and they should be realized as indices as to be quantified. Because the indices are continuously changing, it is important to measure them in daily life. In this article, the idea of systems approach for healthcare is introduced to discuss the important indices of both vital and lifestyle. Application studies follows the idea and introduction to the system configuration. The applied indices are blood pressure as the most important vital signal, exercise, sleep, and nutrition as reflecting lifestyle habits.