At Happily Ever After, we believe in universal preventive healthcare and we are rethinking the global health ecosystem from the ground up.
A brief review of health data infrastructure
At Devcon VI, Ben Jones from the Optimism Collective said of Ethereum: The technology is necessary but insufficient. All infrastructure is simply tools to enable new kinds of actions to be built upon it. Better infrastructure technologies, lower the transaction costs (eg. time, capital, coordination) of actions, and enable new kinds of behaviours, products, services, and paradigms. In healthcare, the conversation of digital infrastructure centres around the storage, sharing, and retrieval of ...
A brief review of health data infrastructure
At Devcon VI, Ben Jones from the Optimism Collective said of Ethereum: The technology is necessary but insufficient. All infrastructure is simply tools to enable new kinds of actions to be built upon it. Better infrastructure technologies, lower the transaction costs (eg. time, capital, coordination) of actions, and enable new kinds of behaviours, products, services, and paradigms. In healthcare, the conversation of digital infrastructure centres around the storage, sharing, and retrieval of ...
On the nature of care
What are the implications of redefining the ideal approach to healing as caring rather than empathic? First, it challenges physicians to confront their fears rather than circumvent them, promoting personal and professional growth. Second, it taps into qualities that promote listening and learning rather than speculation and assumption. And third, a natural and concrete process replaces one that is laborious and abstract, bringing vitality back to a relationship that is increasingly formulaic....
On the nature of care
What are the implications of redefining the ideal approach to healing as caring rather than empathic? First, it challenges physicians to confront their fears rather than circumvent them, promoting personal and professional growth. Second, it taps into qualities that promote listening and learning rather than speculation and assumption. And third, a natural and concrete process replaces one that is laborious and abstract, bringing vitality back to a relationship that is increasingly formulaic....
The Cuban Paradox
The country of Cuba has a GDP per capita of about 12,000 US Dollars (USD), coming in at 120th place in the world; an order of magnitude below developed nations such as Singapore (130000 USD, 2nd) and the United States (76000 USD, 8th). However, the average life expectancy of a Cuban resident tells a very different story, going toe to toe with venerable nations like Singapore and even outpacing the United States.Cuba, Singapore and the US on Life Expectancy and GDP - Our World In DataThat is t...
The Cuban Paradox
The country of Cuba has a GDP per capita of about 12,000 US Dollars (USD), coming in at 120th place in the world; an order of magnitude below developed nations such as Singapore (130000 USD, 2nd) and the United States (76000 USD, 8th). However, the average life expectancy of a Cuban resident tells a very different story, going toe to toe with venerable nations like Singapore and even outpacing the United States.Cuba, Singapore and the US on Life Expectancy and GDP - Our World In DataThat is t...
Data composability will change healthcare
There are over 54,000 mobile health applications currently available on the Apple App Store. Each of these applications holds a data silo, for running distance, sleep health, mood, and several other wellness markers bundled as personal health data. Some of these apps, however, have a publicly accessible API which opens keyholes to their underlying data. Dismally often that data is held in a format arbitrarily decided during the development process of the application. Apple made a saviour in A...
Data composability will change healthcare
There are over 54,000 mobile health applications currently available on the Apple App Store. Each of these applications holds a data silo, for running distance, sleep health, mood, and several other wellness markers bundled as personal health data. Some of these apps, however, have a publicly accessible API which opens keyholes to their underlying data. Dismally often that data is held in a format arbitrarily decided during the development process of the application. Apple made a saviour in A...
Our mission is to add 10 billion years of healthy life to the planet
The human story is one of incredible resilience - in just the last century, our average lifespans have more than doubled globally. Much of this progress can be attributed to the modern health ecosystem which has accomplished feats like eradicating smallpox through vaccination and providing global access to antibiotics.Life expectancy over the last 200 years - Our World In DataToday, we face a different set of challenges. Namely, the four horsemen of chronic disease:Atherosclerotic disease → c...
Our mission is to add 10 billion years of healthy life to the planet
The human story is one of incredible resilience - in just the last century, our average lifespans have more than doubled globally. Much of this progress can be attributed to the modern health ecosystem which has accomplished feats like eradicating smallpox through vaccination and providing global access to antibiotics.Life expectancy over the last 200 years - Our World In DataToday, we face a different set of challenges. Namely, the four horsemen of chronic disease:Atherosclerotic disease → c...
