Using Person Centered Analytics to Live Longer:  Leveraging Engagement, Behavior Change and Technology for a Healthier Life

By Dwight McNeill, PhD, MPH

Using Person Centered Analytics to Live Longer is about empowering and equipping people to take a more active role in mastering five behaviors of everyday life that cause and perpetuate most chronic illnesses. 

It is three books in one.  It provides:

-A framework for understanding why person-centered health analytics is important by describing five convergent realities:  The American way of producing health is failing, people are the drivers for improving health, converging trends demand a person-centered orientation, everyday behavior changes are the interventions that matter, and analytics provides new insights to catalyze it. 

-A toolkit for people that includes information, tools, and a quick reference guides to links that people can use on their own. 

-An opportunities guidebook for stakeholders to understand person-centered health from the person’s perspective, describes how analytics can contribute, and what actions they can take to support it. 

It is different from other books.  It goes beyond a call for action and provides tools and resources.

It describes a new generation of analytics for health.   It diverges from the usual health care analytics that focus on business intelligence for the two Ps (providers and payers) by zeroing in on the health needs of the forgotten P, people.  It is not about worshiping the art of the possible of information technology; it’s about putting analytics to work to engage people to achieve their health destiny.

The defining elements of person-centered health analytics (pchA) are:     

pc:  The focus on the person in terms of what really matters (healthy years of life) and the means to achieve it (personal behavior change). 

      h:  The focus on health that covers the continuum from wellness to sickness and places a priority on well-being and prevention. 

      A:  The focus on capturing and integrating a wide variety of health data and using connected devices, advanced computing, and social networks. 

It is published by FT Press with a release date of April 2015.  For more information on the author, Dwight McNeill, please see his author page.