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In recent years, startups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.enlitic.com/\">Entilic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cellscope.com/\">Cellscope\u003c/a> have developed sophisticated technology to find signs of diseases like cancer from patients' medical images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cuadros, through his work at Eyepacs, agreed to provide thousands of anonymous eye scans to the data scientists. These images had already been graded by one or more human experts as sight-threatening or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham differentiated between the scans by leveraging neural networks, a branch of machine-learning that teaches a computer to map the function of the brain. \"The winner applied this technique to develop the algorithm in ways that would not have been possible five years ago,\" said Goldbloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cuadros, human specialists get it right about 90 percent of the time. The error rate is in often due to tiredness or problems with the quality of the image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was so amazing is that there was a very high correlation between the algorithm and the human experts,\" Cuadros said. \"But when there was a disagreement, sometimes the algorithm got it right and the humans were wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next for the Algorithm?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New programs have \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/projects/2009/diabetic-retinopathy-screening\">p\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/projects/2009/diabetic-retinopathy-screening\">opped up\u003c/a> in rural parts of California in recent years to incorporate screening into primary care visits, with results interpreted remotely by ophthalmologists via an eye scan. One immediate use for the algorithm is to notify photographers in real-time whether they need to retake the image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-28015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-800x600.png\" alt=\"An illustration depicting diabetic retinopathy\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-960x720.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration depicting diabetic retinopathy ne immediate use for the algorithm is to notify photographers or clinicians when they should retake the eye-scan in real-time. \u003ccite>( Blausen.com staff / Wikiversity Journal of Medicine )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it remains to be seen whether the algorithm will make its way into clinical practice as a diagnostic tool that will replace or support human specialists. The next step is a more formal clinical trial to convince other decision-makers in the medical community. The trial will include 1,000 patients and will kick off later in the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuadros hopes the algorithm may ultimately prove useful in places where \"virtually zero percent of patients with diabetes get retinal exams.\" In North Africa, for instance, nonprofit groups are leveraging telemedicine services so providers anywhere in the world can look at people's eye scans. But the limiting factor is that a high-quality Internet connection is required. \"In future, these clinics would only need the algorithm and an inexpensive retinal camera,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Globally, the algorithm could potentially alert a human specialist to look more closely at one scan over another. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The algorithm could also help human specialists avoid making mistakes. Graham's winning algorithm had an \"agreement rate\" that was roughly 10 percent higher than a human-only approach. What this means is that the algorithm and a human expert were more likely to agree on a diagnosis than two human experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point in the near future we'll be limited less by what technology can do and more by people's willingness to trust it,\" said Anthony Goldbloom, cofounder and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kaggle.com\">Kaggle\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based web startup that hosted the competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Smarter than Humans \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuadros had his doubts when he initially learned about the competition, which kicked off in February of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28014\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-28014\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Goldbloom is cofounder and CEO of Kaggle.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/goldbloom-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Goldbloom is cofounder and CEO of Kaggle. \u003ccite>(Christina Farr/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I wondered whether an algorithm could be as good as a human,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a new wave of tools had emerged in recent years that use sophisticated machine-learning technology for medical diagnosis. In recent years, startups like \u003ca href=\"http://www.enlitic.com/\">Entilic\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cellscope.com/\">Cellscope\u003c/a> have developed sophisticated technology to find signs of diseases like cancer from patients' medical images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Cuadros, through his work at Eyepacs, agreed to provide thousands of anonymous eye scans to the data scientists. These images had already been graded by one or more human experts as sight-threatening or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graham differentiated between the scans by leveraging neural networks, a branch of machine-learning that teaches a computer to map the function of the brain. \"The winner applied this technique to develop the algorithm in ways that would not have been possible five years ago,\" said Goldbloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cuadros, human specialists get it right about 90 percent of the time. The error rate is in often due to tiredness or problems with the quality of the image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What was so amazing is that there was a very high correlation between the algorithm and the human experts,\" Cuadros said. \"But when there was a disagreement, sometimes the algorithm got it right and the humans were wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's Next for the Algorithm?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New programs have \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/projects/2009/diabetic-retinopathy-screening\">p\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/projects/2009/diabetic-retinopathy-screening\">opped up\u003c/a> in rural parts of California in recent years to incorporate screening into primary care visits, with results interpreted remotely by ophthalmologists via an eye scan. One immediate use for the algorithm is to notify photographers in real-time whether they need to retake the image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 398px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-28015\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-800x600.png\" alt=\"An illustration depicting diabetic retinopathy\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-800x600.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-400x300.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy-960x720.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Blausen_0312_DiabeticRetinopathy.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration depicting diabetic retinopathy ne immediate use for the algorithm is to notify photographers or clinicians when they should retake the eye-scan in real-time. \u003ccite>( Blausen.com staff / Wikiversity Journal of Medicine )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it remains to be seen whether the algorithm will make its way into clinical practice as a diagnostic tool that will replace or support human specialists. The next step is a more formal clinical trial to convince other decision-makers in the medical community. The trial will include 1,000 patients and will kick off later in the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuadros hopes the algorithm may ultimately prove useful in places where \"virtually zero percent of patients with diabetes get retinal exams.\" In North Africa, for instance, nonprofit groups are leveraging telemedicine services so providers anywhere in the world can look at people's eye scans. But the limiting factor is that a high-quality Internet connection is required. \"In future, these clinics would only need the algorithm and an inexpensive retinal camera,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Globally, the algorithm could potentially alert a human specialist to look more closely at one scan over another. 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"content": "\u003cp>In San Diego, a conflict is brewing over a proposal to build a dense residential development in a rural part of the county. The developer has permission to build 110 homes, but has requested to build 1,706 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict pits the county’s goals for healthier urban growth—concentrating development to cut commute times, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lower wildfire risks—against a proposal for LEED-certified buildings and a water recycling plant to service the new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These developments continue to be proposed and approved with only minimal ability to evaluate their impact on health and quality of life overall,” says Kevin Patrick, director of the Center for Wireless Health at the University of California, San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"This is going to give us an opportunity to see things we hadn’t thought of.”\u003ccite>Dr. Leslie Ray,\u003cbr>\nSenior Epidemiologist, City of San Diego\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Patrick intends to change that. He’s working on a project that, if successful, would give city officials the ability to forecast the consequences of a given development “like the weather,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick is working with a team of data scientists, physicians, and government officials to conduct an experiment called “Big Data and a Culture of Health,” and it could be the future of public policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Forecasting Health \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County’s public health department has been collecting “big data” on health-related issues for years. The information is available to residents via a user-friendly website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a combination of research from marketing companies, mobile health apps, and their own demographic data, the county has information on everything from where in San Diego people eat the most vegetables, who watches “smart” TV versus old-fashioned cable, and where diabetes and Alzheimer’s are most prevalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have already used these data to make positive changes, through the county’s LiveWell public health initiative. The Chula Vista elementary school district saw it had some of the highest childhood obesity rates in San Diego county, and started a program of increased physical activity and healthier meals for kids in every grade. The initiative worked: the number of overweight students has decreased five percent since 2010 .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the “Big Data and a Culture of Health” project, led by Dr. Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University in collaboration with Patrick and San Diego county, is designed to go beyond straight-forward correlations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, researchers are overlaying all the datasets together, and using new computing and data visualizing techniques to tease out correlations they weren’t looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any new public policy will have health effects, Patrick says, even a new bus route or jobs program. But it can be hard to understand, let alone predict, the effects a new transportation policy or major housing development will have. That’s what the new project is designed to help do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27938\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 776px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-27938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-776x600.jpg\" alt=\"This map of chronic disease death rates correlated with health behaviors by region shows the kind of data work San Diego had already done, before the new project.\" width=\"776\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-776x600.jpg 776w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-1920x1484.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-960x742.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map of chronic disease death rates correlated with health behaviors by region shows the kind of data work San Diego had already done, before the new project. \u003ccite>(County of San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is going to give us an opportunity to see things we hadn’t thought of,” says Dr. Leslie Ray, San Diego’s senior epidemiologist. “Once you have a disease, you’re already in my database and I can figure out a lot about you. But if I know what is correlated with the disease before you get it, that’s the phase I’m looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data model will help her department anticipate resident’s health issues before they emerge, Ray says. “We can predict before early disease begins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Personal Data, Citywide Benefits \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the project’s guiding principles of the project is that researchers will focus their efforts on on what county officials and local leaders think is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Alzheimer’s is the third leading cause of death in the region—much higher than the rest of the country, where it’s the sixth leading cause . Dianne Jacobs, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, has made it a priority to figure out why. So investigating what factors are correlated with Alzheimer’s will be one of the project’s tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the data become more refined, citizens will have to decide how much privacy they are willing to trade for big or small health improvements. All the health and demographic information the project uses now is anonymous, and the health records aren’t linked to exactly where people live, just their region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the future the doctors hope to work with health data precisely linked to where people live, and it’s easy to imagine how anonymous records could be put together to identify an individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woolf knows the potential for individual profiling concerns people, but it could have significant benefits, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody in the public obviously is very worried about data privacy,” he says, but “if they understand some of the benefits they might appreciate why we’re thinking about things like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27940\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-27940\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-800x306.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego offers many opportunities for healthy, outdoor activities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-800x306.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-400x153.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-1180x452.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-1920x735.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-960x367.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego offers many opportunities for healthy, outdoor activities. \u003ccite>(Michael Seljos/Wikimedia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, he says, when a patient with asthma visits their doctor, the physician could pull up their electronic medical record and see not only the patient’s labs and x-rays, but also pull up how close they are to the freeway, and what resources are available in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kinds of capacities exist, and are part of the future,” Woolf says. Advertisers are already using them to understand your shopping habits, he points out, so why shouldn’t your doctor use them to help improve your health?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Diego County: A Petri Dish\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County has several unique attributes that Woolf and Patrick say made it the perfect location for this experiment. It’s roughly equivalent to the U.S. overall in terms of demographics, socioeconomic status, and age, he says, and it’s contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the ocean to the west, the desert to the east, Mexico to the south and Camp Pendleton to the north, so we're kind of this buffered community,” Patrick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even more importantly, according to Woolf, is the fact that the county government has already identified health goals for the whole population, invested in a community-wide public health initiative, and gathered and made available the data that makes the whole project possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of community investment doesn't exist everywhere,” says Woolf. Although he hopes someday, it will.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Forecasting Health \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County’s public health department has been collecting “big data” on health-related issues for years. The information is available to residents via a user-friendly website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a combination of research from marketing companies, mobile health apps, and their own demographic data, the county has information on everything from where in San Diego people eat the most vegetables, who watches “smart” TV versus old-fashioned cable, and where diabetes and Alzheimer’s are most prevalent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials have already used these data to make positive changes, through the county’s LiveWell public health initiative. The Chula Vista elementary school district saw it had some of the highest childhood obesity rates in San Diego county, and started a program of increased physical activity and healthier meals for kids in every grade. The initiative worked: the number of overweight students has decreased five percent since 2010 .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the “Big Data and a Culture of Health” project, led by Dr. Steven Woolf of Virginia Commonwealth University in collaboration with Patrick and San Diego county, is designed to go beyond straight-forward correlations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, researchers are overlaying all the datasets together, and using new computing and data visualizing techniques to tease out correlations they weren’t looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any new public policy will have health effects, Patrick says, even a new bus route or jobs program. But it can be hard to understand, let alone predict, the effects a new transportation policy or major housing development will have. That’s what the new project is designed to help do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27938\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 776px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-27938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-776x600.jpg\" alt=\"This map of chronic disease death rates correlated with health behaviors by region shows the kind of data work San Diego had already done, before the new project.\" width=\"776\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-776x600.jpg 776w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-400x309.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-1180x912.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-1920x1484.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Diabetes-and-Exercise-960x742.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map of chronic disease death rates correlated with health behaviors by region shows the kind of data work San Diego had already done, before the new project. \u003ccite>(County of San Diego)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is going to give us an opportunity to see things we hadn’t thought of,” says Dr. Leslie Ray, San Diego’s senior epidemiologist. “Once you have a disease, you’re already in my database and I can figure out a lot about you. But if I know what is correlated with the disease before you get it, that’s the phase I’m looking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data model will help her department anticipate resident’s health issues before they emerge, Ray says. “We can predict before early disease begins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Personal Data, Citywide Benefits \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the project’s guiding principles of the project is that researchers will focus their efforts on on what county officials and local leaders think is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Alzheimer’s is the third leading cause of death in the region—much higher than the rest of the country, where it’s the sixth leading cause . Dianne Jacobs, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, has made it a priority to figure out why. So investigating what factors are correlated with Alzheimer’s will be one of the project’s tasks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the data become more refined, citizens will have to decide how much privacy they are willing to trade for big or small health improvements. All the health and demographic information the project uses now is anonymous, and the health records aren’t linked to exactly where people live, just their region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the future the doctors hope to work with health data precisely linked to where people live, and it’s easy to imagine how anonymous records could be put together to identify an individual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woolf knows the potential for individual profiling concerns people, but it could have significant benefits, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody in the public obviously is very worried about data privacy,” he says, but “if they understand some of the benefits they might appreciate why we’re thinking about things like this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27940\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-27940\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-800x306.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego offers many opportunities for healthy, outdoor activities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-800x306.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-400x153.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-1180x452.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-1920x735.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/San_Diego_Harbor-960x367.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego offers many opportunities for healthy, outdoor activities. \u003ccite>(Michael Seljos/Wikimedia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, he says, when a patient with asthma visits their doctor, the physician could pull up their electronic medical record and see not only the patient’s labs and x-rays, but also pull up how close they are to the freeway, and what resources are available in their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those kinds of capacities exist, and are part of the future,” Woolf says. Advertisers are already using them to understand your shopping habits, he points out, so why shouldn’t your doctor use them to help improve your health?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Diego County: A Petri Dish\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County has several unique attributes that Woolf and Patrick say made it the perfect location for this experiment. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new fast food chain called \u003ca href=\"http://www.eatsa.com\">Eatsa \u003c/a>aims to deliver a healthy, tasty meal for under $10. The catch? Meat-lovers will need to forgo burgers and carnitas burritos in favor of quinoa, a protein-filled grain crop that looks a bit like couscous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, I stopped by the downtown San Francisco location (\u003cem>121 Spear Street\u003c/em>) for a tour of the facility before its official opening on August 31st. What immediately stood out to me is the clean look of the place, which resembles an Apple Store in its design, with the row of white tablet devices where diners can place their order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eatsa is the latest restaurant to experiment with virtual alternatives to wait staff. After you place an order at a kiosk, you pick it up a few minutes later behind a glass door or \"cubby.\" The only humans in sight are the concierges, who can answer questions that you may have about the software, and the dozen or so staff in the kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, restaurants are looking for innovative ways to keep humans out of the picture. But what's unique about Eatsa is the focus on health and taste. It's a fully-automated experience, so Eatsa can afford to offer high-quality food for less. Workers'\u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/minimum-wage-offensive-could-speed-arrival-of-robot-powered-restaurants/2015/08/16/35f284ea-3f6f-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html\"> salaries account for about 30 percent\u003c/a> of the restaurant industry's costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team spent over two years rigorously testing the texture of the sauces and the grain to optimize the taste. Eatsa will also offer a range of beverages, which are sugar-free or low in sugar. Eatsa plans to open two more locations in the coming months, including a restaurant in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Healthy by Accident\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27256\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 370px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-27256\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa2-763x600.jpg\" alt=\"What stood out to me is Eatsa's clean design and its focus on health \" width=\"370\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa2-763x600.jpg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa2-400x315.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa2-1180x928.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa2-1920x1510.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa2-960x755.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">What stood out to me is Eatsa's clean design and its focus on health \u003ccite>(Christina Farr / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eatsa's team, led by Scott Drummond and Tim Young, are hoping to attract health-conscious types with its hearty salads and quinoa bowls stuffed with green beans, avocado, and root vegetables. The average meal will set you back about 500 calories, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html?_r=0\">which is far lower than most fast food alternatives.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also has its eye on busy professionals in the Financial District who don't particularly care about eating healthy, but are looking for a quick and tasty meal that will last them through dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to help people get healthy almost by accident,\" said Dave Friedberg, the chief executive officer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.climate.com/\">Climate Corp,\u003c/a> a Monsanto-owned company, who is one of Eatsa's main backers. On the side, Friedberg has invested in a number of Bay Area-based food-technology startups, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.clarafoods.com/\">Clara Foods\u003c/a>, which is developing an egg-free egg white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Friedberg, a meal is slightly cheaper than Chipotle, which may appeal to cash-strapped people who work in the area (in fact, the price of a burrito bowl and quinoa bowl are roughly equitable at just under $7, although the latter contains about half the calories).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Quinoa is definitely one of those foods that has become really popular lately, but this one actually has some real science behind it,\" said Jennifer Gibson, a San Francisco-based nutritionist who works at \u003ca href=\"https://www.vida.com\">Vida\u003c/a>, a health coaching app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-27255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Investor Dave Friedberg gave me a tour of Eatsa, a healthy fast food restaurant opening at the end of the month \" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investor Dave Friedberg gave me a tour of Eatsa, a healthy fast food restaurant opening at the end of the month \u003ccite>(Christina Farr / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quinoa is a complete protein, meaning it contains the nine amino acids our body needs. It's also gluten free, and has a low \u003ca href=\"http://www.glycemicindex.com/\">glycemic index\u003c/a> compared to a lot of other grains. \"Let's put it this way,\" said Gibson. \"It's one of the few foods I would bring to the desert island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That all sounds well and good, but I have been feeling guilty \u003cspan class=\"s1\">about eating quinoa since \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\">2013. A series of articles claimed that global demand for the superfood had put it out of reach for those living closest to where it's traditionally been grown.\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> But \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/16/202737139/is-our-love-of-quinoa-hurting-or-helping-farmers-who-grow-it\">\u003cspan class=\"s3\">NPR interviewed farmers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"s2\"> in subsequent months who denied that they could no longer afford the staple crop. They were still eating quinoa, and accessing other healthy foods, including tomatoes and veggies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">In fact, quinoa can grow in diverse conditions and requires very little water to grow, said Friedberg, which makes it a valuable crop to feed a growing population. \"Quinoa is truly a superfood.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The average meal will set you back about 500 calories, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html?_r=0\">which is far lower than most fast food alternatives.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also has its eye on busy professionals in the Financial District who don't particularly care about eating healthy, but are looking for a quick and tasty meal that will last them through dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to help people get healthy almost by accident,\" said Dave Friedberg, the chief executive officer of \u003ca href=\"https://www.climate.com/\">Climate Corp,\u003c/a> a Monsanto-owned company, who is one of Eatsa's main backers. On the side, Friedberg has invested in a number of Bay Area-based food-technology startups, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.clarafoods.com/\">Clara Foods\u003c/a>, which is developing an egg-free egg white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Friedberg, a meal is slightly cheaper than Chipotle, which may appeal to cash-strapped people who work in the area (in fact, the price of a burrito bowl and quinoa bowl are roughly equitable at just under $7, although the latter contains about half the calories).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Quinoa is definitely one of those foods that has become really popular lately, but this one actually has some real science behind it,\" said Jennifer Gibson, a San Francisco-based nutritionist who works at \u003ca href=\"https://www.vida.com\">Vida\u003c/a>, a health coaching app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_27255\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-27255\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Investor Dave Friedberg gave me a tour of Eatsa, a healthy fast food restaurant opening at the end of the month \" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/eatsa3-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Investor Dave Friedberg gave me a tour of Eatsa, a healthy fast food restaurant opening at the end of the month \u003ccite>(Christina Farr / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quinoa is a complete protein, meaning it contains the nine amino acids our body needs. 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And when they turned the gene up in other mice, these mice ended up with 22 percent more white fat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was not due to differences in diet as all of the mice ate the exact same thing. In fact, the mice that lost this gene gained less weight when put on a high fat diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It looks like this gene plays an important role in telling the mouse how much fat to make based on what it is fed. Note, this gene isn't the whole story to explain why one mouse got plumper, but it is important enough to have a serious impact when tweaked. And it is likely that the equivalent gene in people plays a similar role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists aren’t going to engineer this gene away in people. That would be far too drastic. 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(Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"500\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Adipocyte.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Adipocyte-400x518.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/Adipocyte-464x600.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mice lacking the 14-3-3 zeta gene had fewer of these fat cells and they packed in less fat. (\u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Blausen_0012_AdiposeTissue.png\">Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When people gain weight, their fat cells first grow larger. Basically more and more fat is crammed into the cell until it gets too big.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the fat cell gets about four times its original size, it divides in two. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It looks like this gene plays an important role in telling the mouse how much fat to make based on what it is fed. Note, this gene isn't the whole story to explain why one mouse got plumper, but it is important enough to have a serious impact when tweaked. And it is likely that the equivalent gene in people plays a similar role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists aren’t going to engineer this gene away in people. That would be far too drastic. But what they hope to do is to someday find a drug that can affect this gene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea would be that when the drug dampens the effect of the gene, people would gain less weight even with an unhealthy diet. 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"content": "\u003cp>For two years, Bill and Clare Lloyd heard the sound of their daughter Jenna's crying and screaming night after night. The next morning, Jenna would have no memory of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenna started experiencing night terrors, sometimes known as sleep terrors, at the age of seven. Bill Lloyd recalled how Jenna would thrash around and shout, or sit up and semi-lucidly stare through him, rather than at him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Night terrors \u003ca href=\"http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/night-terrors/basics/symptoms/con-20032552\">affect a small percentage of children\u003c/a>, around three to six percent. They are not the same thing as nightmares, which are far more common, as they occur in the first hours of deep sleep and the child won't remember it the next day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The night terrors didn't seem to impact her very much, or at all,\" said Bill Lloyd, who lives in San Jose, Calif. and works as a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch. \"But it was very disconcerting for her parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenna, who is now 10-years-old, no longer experiences night terrors. It's possible that she grew out of them naturally, as many children do. But her parents chalk it up to a $99 bluetooth-enabled device called \u003ca href=\"http://www.lullysleep.com/\">Lully\u003c/a> that they began using about six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lloyd's were among the first people to try the device, which launched to the public in mid-July of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Watch a video below to see how Lully works.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pod-shaped Lully is designed to be placed under the child's mattress. It pairs with a mobile app, which parents use to program information about the child's sleep history, including their typical bedtime and the time that they typically experience a night terror. If the child stays up late or goes to bed early, the parent can adjust the mobile app accordingly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The white pod vibrates for about three minutes, and keeps the child from entering the \"troubling deep sleep\" that can result in a night terror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timing is everything, as \"waking the child up during the night terror can make it worse,\" said Teresa Stewart, a sleep consultant and child development specialist from Boston, Mass., whose own daughter experienced night terrors for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lully was invented by Andy Rink, a physician and Varun Boriah, a mechanical engineer, who met during their fellowship year at \u003ca href=\"http://biodesign.stanford.edu/bdn/index.jsp\">Stanford's Biodesign program\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair spent months studying \"scheduled awakenings,\" a method for alleviating night terrors that dates back to the 1980s. In order for the approach to work, parents must awaken the child themselves before the night terror.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rink said many parents did not stick it out as it's a rigorous program. But new mobile and sensor-based technology could be used to rouse the child awake so they don't have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Stewart, another benefit to using the technology is that it can be stressful for parents to take on the full responsibility for weeks or months. \"Sometimes children feed off that stress and they begin to experience anxiety about going to bed,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The device has been tested in a year-long clinical study at Stanford University. Rink claims that Lully was able to reduce night terrors by 90 percent, and the device did not affect the child's quality of sleep or daytime functioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lully team is considering applying the technology to help children with other sleep-related disorders, including bed wetting and sleepwalking. But for now, Rink said they are focused on improving the technology so it can predict when a child is about to experience a sleep terror, rather than relying on a parent's best guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Lloyd family, Lully is still a work in progress (their early version of the product won't let them download the app to multiple iPhones, for instance), but it represents a significant step forward from having to wake their daughter up each night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Finally, we can put our daughter to bed and not worry she's going to wake up screaming and crying,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ7Oc0hjxZ4]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Unlike previous generations, young people today have countless options when it comes to their medical care. Millennials can video chat with a doctor practicing anywhere in the country, or sign up with a concierge medical group and schedule an appointment with the next-available provider online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A millennial myself, I haven't had a steady primary care doctor since I moved to the U.S. four years ago. I prize convenience over anything else, even if it means having to repeat basic information like my allergies and family history. Over the past few months, I've interviewed more than a dozen millennials and a range of health experts to find out whether I'm the exception or the norm, and whether doctor-patient loyalty is truly a thing of the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend Olivia June Poole couldn't tell me the name of her primary care doctor. When she's feeling unwell, she makes an appointment online through San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.onemedical.com/\">One Medical\u003c/a>, a new brand of concierge care that prides itself on its online offerings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I personally don't care what doctor I see as long as they're competent, they have access to my medical records, and I can see them as soon as I need to,\" said Poole, a technology entrepreneur in her late twenties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost all of the millennials I spoke with said they had high expectations for their primary care and were willing to \"doctor shop\" until they felt satisfied. 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She said she has taken the time to choose a doctor who will spend time really listening to her, rather than staring at a screen or hastening her out the door after a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I trust they [my doctor] will be open and honest with me and that they trust me to hear not only my worries but my thoughts as well and take those into account,” she said. “I expect not to be rushed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a recent trip to the East Coast, I paid a visit to Manhattan-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.zocdoc.com/\">ZocDoc\u003c/a>, a website that helps millions of patients each month across the U.S. schedule doctor's visits. 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In order words, millennials are willing to wait a bit to see their regular doctor, but not a few weeks or months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikolaos Bonatsos, a 31-year-old venture capitalist based in Palo Alto, has been seeing the same doctor for four years. Recently, he said he felt a bout of fatigue and tried to schedule a time to talk about his symptoms. Only when he didn't hear back for two days, did he opt to schedule an online visit via One Medical with a doctor who happened to be available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"F\u003cspan class=\"s1\">or small stuff, do I have loyalty? No,\" he said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\"In the era of text messaging and instant gratification, speed matters a lot. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/health/2015/08/05/18054/bargain-hunt-for-health-care-procedures-but-use-ca/\">This post originally appeared on KPCC’s consumer health blog, Impatient.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shopping for things like hotel reservations is pretty easy these days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of websites that allow you to compare options by price and other factors. Some sites – like \u003ca href=\"http://www.priceline.com/home/\">Priceline \u003c/a>- even let you do the online version of haggling: You name the price you're willing to pay and the site matches you with a hotel willing to accept your bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some entrepreneurs are now trying to adapt this approach to the health care field, where it's been notoriously difficult to shop around. It's a development that's being welcomed – with some caution – by people who advocate for transparency in the health care marketplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This approach is the type of thing that the health care market needs,\" says Dr. Peter Ubel, a professor at Duke University. \"With more and more people in the U.S. paying more and more out of pocket for their health care, they need to be more like regular consumers, where they're looking around for price and quality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, these new sites that bill themselves as being like Priceline for health care \"give consumers more power,\" Ubel says. But, he and others warn, with more power comes more responsibility on the part of the consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Win-Win\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the Los Angeles-based start-up company\u003ca href=\"https://www.zendyhealth.com/\"> ZendyHealth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site allows you to choose a procedure from a list of medical services, like CT or MRI scans. It will tell you the average price for that procedure. You can then suggest the price that you're willing to pay, and providers can choose whether to accept the bid. If you undergo the procedure, you can either pay in cash or use funds from your health savings account, if you have a high-deductible health plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another site, \u003ca href=\"http://www.medibid.com/\">MediBid\u003c/a>, lets you post a request for a procedure. Doctors and facilities can then bid on your request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Vish Banthia, with more than 10 years of experience in head and neck surgery, as well as facial, plastic and reconstructive surgery, is ZendyHealth's chief medical officer. He says he developed the site in response to two problems he'd repeatedly witnessed: Patients were sometimes\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/health/2015/05/14/18029/high-deductibles-force-people-to-skip-care-study-f/\"> skipping recommended tests or treatments\u003c/a> because they couldn't afford them. Meanwhile, he says, providers were facing the high costs of staying in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ZendyHealth, then, is a win-win for patients and providers, he says: Patients can get a deal on certain procedures and providers can try to fill their appointment slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A patient can't input a ridiculously low amount, and of course providers have the right to not accept these prices if it doesn't make sense for them,\" Banthia says. But \"for most of the requests that are being made by the customers on our site, we're able to fulfill them because it makes sense for the provider to accept.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Comparison Shopping \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts I spoke with for this story agree that consumers should be cautious when using these types of tools to shop for health care. 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It's also a good idea to check sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcarebluebook.com/page_Default.aspx\">Healthcare Bluebook\u003c/a>, which estimate the price of procedures in your area, or KPCC's and KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/price-check\">PriceCheck\u003c/a>, which shows the range of prices charged by facilities in your area, what patients have paid and what insurers have covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After doing that research, you could check out sites like ZendyHealth or MediBid to see if they offer deeper discounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it really looks like from one of these sites that the deal might be better, then you might be able to go in with eyes wider open,\" says Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of\u003ca href=\"http://www.catalyzepaymentreform.org/\"> Catalyst for Payment Reform\u003c/a>, which works on behalf of large employers and other health care purchasers to promote higher-value care in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would certainly do some comparison shopping before assuming that these sites are offering something better than you might get through the normal means,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Price Isn't Everything' \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts stress that bargain hunting for medical care is a complex endeavor: When shopping for health care, consumers should not just consider price, but also the quality of the facility, its doctors and the services provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Price isn't everything,\" Ubel says. \"Sometimes you can pay too little for something and end up with something that's very low quality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do you know if that bargain MRI is worth it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah Binder, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leapfroggroup.org/\">Leapfrog Group\u003c/a>, recommends doing your due diligence by asking for a facility's infection rates, requesting documentation of its board certification and licensure, and researching other quality measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Try to get some confirmation that this provider is good,\" Binder says. \"That's a very critical element – you're entrusting your health and life to this person, so you need to know that they can do a good job for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, ZendyHealth says it has a Medical Advisory Board that screens for top class, highly rated, certified providers and selectively adds them to its provider network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binder still has concerns about who might end up being listed on these types of sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know who is going to put their services out into a market like this - it could be some fraudulent providers, it could be some very bad providers who can't get business elsewhere, so we certainly have to be afraid of that,\" Binder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the other hand, I'm hopeful that it's a sign that we're going to change the way consumers access health care,\" she says. \"As soon as consumers are out there looking at both price and quality and making deliberate decisions about providers based on those things, we will change the way health care is delivered. 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It's also a good idea to check sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcarebluebook.com/page_Default.aspx\">Healthcare Bluebook\u003c/a>, which estimate the price of procedures in your area, or KPCC's and KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/price-check\">PriceCheck\u003c/a>, which shows the range of prices charged by facilities in your area, what patients have paid and what insurers have covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After doing that research, you could check out sites like ZendyHealth or MediBid to see if they offer deeper discounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it really looks like from one of these sites that the deal might be better, then you might be able to go in with eyes wider open,\" says Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of\u003ca href=\"http://www.catalyzepaymentreform.org/\"> Catalyst for Payment Reform\u003c/a>, which works on behalf of large employers and other health care purchasers to promote higher-value care in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would certainly do some comparison shopping before assuming that these sites are offering something better than you might get through the normal means,\" she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Price Isn't Everything' \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts stress that bargain hunting for medical care is a complex endeavor: When shopping for health care, consumers should not just consider price, but also the quality of the facility, its doctors and the services provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Price isn't everything,\" Ubel says. \"Sometimes you can pay too little for something and end up with something that's very low quality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how do you know if that bargain MRI is worth it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah Binder, president and CEO of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leapfroggroup.org/\">Leapfrog Group\u003c/a>, recommends doing your due diligence by asking for a facility's infection rates, requesting documentation of its board certification and licensure, and researching other quality measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Try to get some confirmation that this provider is good,\" Binder says. \"That's a very critical element – you're entrusting your health and life to this person, so you need to know that they can do a good job for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On its website, ZendyHealth says it has a Medical Advisory Board that screens for top class, highly rated, certified providers and selectively adds them to its provider network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Binder still has concerns about who might end up being listed on these types of sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know who is going to put their services out into a market like this - it could be some fraudulent providers, it could be some very bad providers who can't get business elsewhere, so we certainly have to be afraid of that,\" Binder says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On the other hand, I'm hopeful that it's a sign that we're going to change the way consumers access health care,\" she says. \"As soon as consumers are out there looking at both price and quality and making deliberate decisions about providers based on those things, we will change the way health care is delivered. It will change everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banthia of ZendyHealth points out that his company isn't trying to encourage people to shop around for cheaper prices for care, \"we're just simply taking the entire process of what's been going on between patients and providers and making it more efficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The secret to a longer life may be lurking in the DNA of the million or so folks who have signed up for the services of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ancestry.com/\">AncestryDNA\u003c/a>. At least that is what \u003ca href=\"http://www.calicolabs.com/\">Calico\u003c/a>, a Google-funded company that is researching ways to make us all live longer, is hoping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.calicolabs.com/news/2015/07/21/\">two companies have teamed up\u003c/a> to mine AncestryDNA’s genetic database for families with lots of very old people\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong> The hope is that they will find a few bits of DNA that the long-lived people share -- and that this will lead Calico to life-extending therapies. We will all get to live longer even if we weren’t lucky enough to inherit that DNA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ultimate prize would be that the database holds a clue that helps us uncover why we age in the first place. Then we might be able to tweak the newly-uncovered process so that we really slow down aging or, dare I say it, stop it in its tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19814\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Celegans.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-19814\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Celegans.jpg\" alt=\"It took just a few, small genes to make this little roundworm live four times as long as it normally would. Maybe we can find something similar in people. (Wikimedia Commons)\" width=\"500\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Celegans.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/Celegans-400x290.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It took just a few, small genetics to make this little roundworm live four times as long as it normally would. Maybe we can find something similar in people. (\u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Caenorhabditis_elegans.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Who knows, maybe one day we can expect to \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/11/-sp-live-forever-extend-life-calico-google-longevity\">live to be 1000\u003c/a>! Or, at the very least, maybe renowned geneticist Craig Venter and his new company \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanlongevity.com/\">Human Longevity Inc.\u003c/a> are right and \"\u003ca href=\"http://io9.com/craig-venters-new-longevity-startup-will-make-100-the-1536833065\">100 will become the new 60\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may seem like an exciting prospect, but we don’t know yet if AncestryDNA's database has what Calico is looking for. But in my opinion, this one is about as good as it gets right now for finding the silver bullet that slays aging. And if Calico can add data from \u003ca href=\"https://www.23andme.com/\">23andMe\u003c/a>, another DNA testing company that Google has ponied up money for, then the chances get even better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all brings up a concern: I wonder how many of AncestryDNA’s customers realize that their health data might be used for more than their own ancestry research? The fact that the company can do this with customer DNA is buried deep in their seven pages of Terms and Conditions (although they did say that they regularly email privacy updates to their users). But if you're anything like me, you'll just check the box without reading all the fine print. I'll be keeping a close eye on any potential fallout from the company’s first official use of people’s DNA for something besides ancestry research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, uncovering valuable insights from DNA seems like a good cause. Well, as long as these life extending therapies are ultimately available to the general public (AncestryDNA general manager Ken Chahine stressed his hope that the data, at least, will improve health care for everyone). Wouldn’t it be sad if someone whose DNA was used in the study could not afford the eventual treatment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DNA + Ancestry Research = Jackpot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mining a DNA database is only useful if the DNA tests and the information you need about the participants are present and accurate. Which is why AncestryDNA’s database is such a treasure trove for geneticists who study longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19817\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/DNAprison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-19817\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/DNAprison.jpg\" alt=\"Perhaps we can find something in our DNA that frees us from the process of aging. Here's hoping! 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(Click \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2015/07/23/understanding-aging-to-live-longer/\">here\u003c/a> for a detailed discussion of this point.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best case scenario is probably one where aging is due to some switch or program that kicks in at a certain time. Basically we can repair the damage to our bodies pretty well up to that point. If this is the case, then we really only need to find this program in our genes. We can then figure out how it works and how to disrupt it. The final part would be to develop or find a drug that shuts it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem becomes much harder if aging occurs because our repair can’t keep up with damage over time. 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Wouldn’t it be sad if someone whose DNA was used in the study could not afford the eventual treatment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DNA + Ancestry Research = Jackpot\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mining a DNA database is only useful if the DNA tests and the information you need about the participants are present and accurate. Which is why AncestryDNA’s database is such a treasure trove for geneticists who study longevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19817\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/DNAprison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-19817\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/07/DNAprison.jpg\" alt=\"Perhaps we can find something in our DNA that frees us from the process of aging. Here's hoping! 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She said that Aprecia has three other candidates for 3-D printing in the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out how 3-D printing might transform drug development, or benefit patients, I spoke with Bonnie I. Scott, a Washington D.C.-based lawyer specializing in health and life sciences. Scott, who works for the firm Epstein Becker & Green, has been following the intersection of 3-D printing and medicine closely, and has written a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.pharmamedtechinsights.com/2014/11/3-d-printed-devices-pose-layers-of-regulatory-questions/\">blog posts on the topic\u003c/a>. This interview with Scott has been edited for brevity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does the FDA's opinion about 3-D printing matter? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drug companies can't reach the market unless they get approval from the FDA. It won't reach you, the patient, unless the FDA agrees that it's safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Have any other 3-D printed medical applications received FDA approval?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the conversation over the last couple of years has surrounded 3-D printed medical devices. The FDA has already cleared several, including knee, facial and cranial implants for reconstruction procedures, and more recently, a titanium bone tether plate\u003ca href=\"http://3dprint.com/41701/3d-printing-and-foot-deformity/\"> for the treatment of bunions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a sense for how the agency views 3-D printing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, the FDA held a public workshop to discuss the technical challenges and patient safety concerns surrounding 3-D printed devices. 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The kind of trajectory it may follow is to start with the traditional manufacturing environment, then move into the pharmacy space -- the pharmacist would have a 3-D printer to combine pills, for instance -- and once the kinks are worked out it might be used at home. Of course, there would still need to be some kind of screening process and buy-in from the doctor, pharmacist and patient to make sure everyone is on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you see this opening the door for other drug makers? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3-D printed drugs and devices hold great promise for providing patient-specific treatments. Even though FDA has yet to solidify a regulatory stance on its evaluation of these products, innovators show no sign of slowing their development efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's interesting that a relative newcomer in the pharma space received FDA approval first. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/health/2015/07/29/18052/looking-for-a-doctor-word-of-mouth-data-both-helpf/\">This post originally appeared on KPCC's consumer health blog, Impatient.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My friend Sarah Rothbard recently started a new job. That meant switching insurance plans and finding a primary care doctor in her network that she liked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that proved to be a challenging task, even though she took a textbook approach to finding a doctor:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>She tried asking friends for recommendations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>When that didn't work, she went to the website of her insurance company, Aetna, and searched for in-network doctors near her home or work.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>She checked out where the doctors went to medical school and when they graduated, and cross-referenced this information with online reviews.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"I'm a pretty meticulous planner, so when I plan a vacation, I'll Google it, then I'll ask friends and I'll also go to TripAdvisor,\" Rothbard, 31, says. \"I thought I would do this kind of thing for finding a doctor and it didn't really work out that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 736px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-21572\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/109389-full-736x600.jpg\" alt=\"Looking for the right doctor can be a frustrating procces\" width=\"736\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/109389-full-736x600.jpg 736w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/109389-full-400x326.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/109389-full-960x783.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/08/109389-full.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking for the right doctor can be a frustrating process \u003ccite>(Sybren Stüvel via Flickr Creative Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She eventually selected a doctor based on her research, but after visiting his office, she decided he was not the right fit for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data \"Inadequate\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a high-quality primary care doctor that you like and is covered by your insurance is a challenge. That's even true for other doctors, admits Dr. Bob Wachter, professor and interim chairman of the UC San Francisco Department of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the data that are available to patients to help them make these decisions are really inadequate,\" Wachter says. He adds that he runs a department of some 700 doctors and \"even in my position, I don't have any great way of figuring out who's really good at what they do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That being said, Wachter says there are some basic things to do when searching for a high-quality doctor:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Check whether the doctor went through reputable training programs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ensure the doctor is board-certified in his or her specialty\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Check online review sites, but take the feedback with a grain of salt.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\"There are doctors who have wonderful bedside manner and get terrific reviews and yet are dangerous,\" Wachter cautions. \"And there are other doctors who are a little bit grumpy, who are really terrific technically at surgery or cognitively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're looking at the online reviews, chances are you're really getting a snapshot into their bedside manner, which is clearly important but not the only thing you care about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Reports also offers \u003ca href=\"http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/09/how-to-choose-a-doctor/index.htm\">these tips\u003c/a> for finding a doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some Websites Offer More Data \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rothbard and Wachter are not alone in this struggle. In fact, it's spurred the development of at least two startup companies that aim to empower patients to connect with high quality, in-network doctors that they like and trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through \u003ca href=\"https://www.zocdoc.com/\">ZocDoc\u003c/a>, you can search for a type of doctor, filtered by zip code and your insurance carrier. A list of doctors pops up; you can then click on their individual profiles to get information about their medical education, hospital affiliations, board certifications and which insurance plans they accept. You can also see how other ZocDoc users reviewed the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another cool thing about ZocDoc: You can book an appointment with a doctor through the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://betterdoctor.com/\">BetterDoctor\u003c/a>, you can search for doctors by specialty and location. Again, a list of doctors pops up; you can check out their individual profiles to learn about their medical education and specialties, as well as patients' Yelp reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Why should it be that I get more information about buying a car or a refrigerator than trying to find a doctor for my cancer or my heart disease?\"\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Bob Wachter, professor and interim chairman of the UC San Francisco Department of Medicine.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The site also integrates data from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cms.gov/\">Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u003c/a> regarding how often other physicians refer patients to this particular doctor and how often the doctor performs certain procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Wachter to look at both sites and he liked what he saw. He called the emergence of sites like these a \"healthy trend\" toward making quality and safety data more accessible to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why should it be that I get more information about buying a car or a refrigerator than trying to find a doctor for my cancer or my heart disease,\" Wachter says. \"It's crazy but it's changing very, very quickly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Word-of-Mouth Trumps All'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back to my friend Sarah Rothbard: Not satisfied with the doctor she had selected, she went back to the drawing board. This time, she got a recommendation from one of her new colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you're overwhelmed, word-of-mouth trumps all,\" says Rothbard, noting that she hasn't yet visited the new physician. \"I think when it comes to finding a doctor, it pretty quickly becomes overwhelming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ran this idea by Ari Tulla, co-founder and CEO of BetterDoctor. 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