title: Our wealth, our health--bellwether industries for decision tools and symbiotic stewardships.
abstract: This chapter examines the tea leaves of emerging technologies for the most fruitful areas of crossover value to health decisions, by spotting bellwether industries of similar information asymmetries. It examines changing tools and roles for growing consumer-centrism in personal finance, healthcare, private aviation, and law. It seeks to understand the technologies of managing and measuring, the transformations of growing transparencies in our processes, and how an increasing sense of collective stewardship forged between people and their machines can lead beyond effectiveness to wisdom, for individuals, communities, and the world. "The whole thing reminds me of the uncomfortable feeling I experienced when I first sought out investment advice. . . ..I concluded that I had to undertake the generalist's job myself; I had to take the high-level management of my investments into my own hands. Similarly, given the structure of the medical practice associated with prostate cancer, that's the only viable choice any patient has." Andy Grove, Co-Founder and Chair, Intel. "In the end, a symbiotic culture composed of human and digital individuals may be a more effective steward of the earth's resources than humans would be by themselves." Donald D. Chamberlin, author and ACM Fellow.
authors.affiliation: Cancer Communication Technologies, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Population Science, Office of the Director, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Jean A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Wooldridge
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology; D003256:Community Participation; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D018581:Technology Transfer; D014481:United States