Innovations and Technologies for Health and Wellness Martin Hernandez 1 , Christian Juhra 2 , Andre Kushniruk 3 , Elizabeth Borycki 3 , and Kendall Ho 4 ITecnol6gico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico 2Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany 3University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada 4University ofBritish Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Abstract-The technological revolution of the 21st Century has been impressive and mind boggling. It has a major impact in all the fields, but probably one with a highest impact is health. If we connect the speed impact and transformation of the technology with the importance for society of wellness and health and the millennial vision of here and now, instant responses open tremendous opportunities for technology to deliver the benefits that the individuals are looking for. Three basic concepts are fundamental elements that make health and well-being a specific target for technology to develop tools and processes of information evaluation and gathering that can make a difference in every human life. These 3 fundamental concepts of our human bodyare: 1- Structure 2- Function 3- Variations Having thorough technology to gather information from anthropometrics to body composition all the way through the nano level have created potent tools to observe the healthy parameters as weil as the deviations that can signal the presence of a disease. The same applies for the physiology from the basics of organ and systems measurements to their interaction with biomechanics and molecular biology, genomics, proteomics that help to understand pathways, energy use and how to measure the evidence of an appropriate function to signify health. And finally, understanding that life models do not follow our rigid process for its outputs and throughputs and these variations can be analyzed and interpreted through statistics and bioinformatics to defy the ranges where health and wellness are present and the deviations that the disease produces. My intention is to show you several examples and applications where we can find the importance of this modeling to develop the tools and technologies that will benefit human kind in the following decades. I. I NTRODUCTION It is a fact that any of us can recognize that wellness and health are one of the top agendas for the individuals of the 21 st century. Its relevance will continue to grow with the world' s view and its individual view that millennials have today. This will continue to grow exponentially as this generation ages and they start developing health complications and behavior modification that affects their view ofITS NOW AND WHA T IS IN IT FOR ME. Some reports indicate that the wellness 978-1-5090-1000-4/1 6/ $3l.00 ©2016 IEEE 37 industry is being transformed by technology, and some analysis showed aglobai value of 12 billion dollars in this industries. If we look at reports of frrms such as Frost & Sullivan, the top health and wellness technology for 2015 across the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry indicate innovations in diagnosis, prognosis and therapies in diseases like cancer, cardiovascular, chronic lifestyle diseases & neurological conditions. Then if we connect the growth of these needs and the tremendous transformation that technology and engineering are doing on its own, vast and unexplored opportunities are going to be conquered in the following years. Based on the capacities of the application of these systems, devices and technologies that analyze each specific problem and opportunity the basic variables that are key to understand the human body and how to measure and recognize the deviations of health and therefore establish patterns to prevent the diseases and maintain the highest performance in our human body. 11 . DATA ANAL YSIS AND SELECTED PROBLEMS APPROACH To be able to assess the importance of the top Health and Wellness Technologies in 2015, it is important to understand the trends in life sciences and the evolution of technology and devices to acquire data on: Structure, Function and Variations. Regarding the Trends, there are 6 key elements to consider in order to identify the most important opportunities: 1- One size fits all approach does not work. 2- Create value and lower cost. 3- Revisiting alternative therapies - Progress in technology has given new life to old strategies. 4- Convergence as a transformative element for healthcare. This is best represented by bioinformatics and genomics. 5- Healthcare is moving towards being more patient-centric. 6- Biosimilars developing as alternate therapies As an example, the Frost & Sullivan report identifies, through a systematic evaluation process, the top ten health and wellness technologies in 2015. DMIAF 2016