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

Introduction

Are you worth it? The American way of producing health is failing. The U.S. ranks 28^th out of 34 OECD countries in producing a long life as measured by years of life lost due to premature mortality¹. This translates into 36 million years of life lost every year. When economists put a value on a year of life, at about $71,000², the monetized value of the lives lost is $2.6 trillion. This is nearly equivalent to annual health care expenditures of $2.8 trillion. The paradox is that the U.S. spends considerably more per capita on health care but much less than peer countries on health.³ The fact is that producing a long and healthy life is not on any organization’s mission statement but our own.

¹ US Burden of Disease Collaborators (2013). ...