Wearables will keep track of everything from blood pressure to drinking habits
event in 2011 changed Juneja’s outlook on the future of healthcare – and his own career. “By chance I went to an event at the University of Cambridge, called
Part of his appeal as a speaker
‘Silicon Valley comes to the UK’,” he recalls. “I met a number of leaders from Silicon Valley and they shared their insight and vision around what they were building and the technology that was coming. When I went back to my offi ce, I couldn’t reconcile what I’d heard about the future with what I was working on on a daily basis. So I resigned with no plan whatsoever. All I knew was I needed to create space in my life for something new to come in.” That ‘something new’ was digital health. Juneja set himself up
Technology, data, algorithms and sensors are
increasingly prevalent, but there’s still a need for creating personal experiences”
is that he isn’t afraid to rock the boat. Last year, he caused a storm by suggesting that technology – more specifi cally the combination of big data, the internet of things, the quantifi ed self and wearable tech – could make some doctors unemployed within the next decade. He identifi ed GPs as being particularly vulnerable to the possible streamlining of healthcare brought on by developing tech. To demonstrate the point, when I
meet Juneja he whips out his phone, swipes open an app and holds the phone up by both ends as if to take a photo. But rather than framing a shot,
as a consultant and immersed himself in the subject, consuming everything he could on the topic. Three years on and the investment and risk have paid off. He’s now a speaker in high demand, with his TEDx talks and appearances at high profi le conferences such as Health 2.0 & Body Computing establishing him as one of the foremost thought leaders on digital health. He now travels the world both learning and sharing.
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the screen is suddenly fi lled by an ECG graph jumping up and down across it. “This is what my heart is doing,” he explains. “The sensors are on the back of the phone cover and they record my pulse and heart activity from the edge of my fi ngertips. It’s been approved by the regulators and clinically validated, so you could record this and send it to a cardiologist for an opinion – the app gives all the info he needs to make an assessment. It’s an example of bringing healthcare out of the hospital and into the home.”
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