Project Baseline: Google's five-year plan to map the entire journey of human health

If you've ever been in hospital or found

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yourself with a major illness, you'll know how often doctors will check up on you: recording your pulse, measuring your weight, ordering blood tests, and taking samples.

That means doctors have a pretty good idea of what seriously ill looks like. However, they don't have the same level of detail about what a generally healthy person looks like -- the medical profession spends a lot less time and attention taking details from people that aren't obviously unwell.

Project Baseline, however, reckons healthy people could provide a wealth of data that could not only help predict if they're going to fall sick, but also be used to delay the onset of disease -- or even avoid it altogether.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/project-baseline-googles-give-year-plan-to-map-the-entire-journey-of-human-health/