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COLUMN DATA CENTERS

Part Two, Digital Health-Care Planning

Digital Revolution Impact
BY DONALD L. BEATY, P.E., FELLOW ASHRAE; DAVID QUIRK, P.E., MEMBER ASHRAE

The digitization of human beings will profoundly change everything about human
life, the buildings we live and work in, and the integration of the two. Since everything we do as humans revolves around ourselves, it stands to reason that the digitization of humans could be the ultimate big data endeavor.
While estimates vary, the human body has about 150
zettabytes (150 trillion Gigabytes) of information. By
comparison, in 2011, 1.8 zettabytes of information was
created globally.1
Some examples of the human digitization efforts are in
the sidebar, "Human Digitization."
In September 2014, "Digital Revolution Impact,
Part 1-Digital Health-Care Planning," we introduced
the concept of the "digital occupant" in buildings,
which refers to both the stationary and portable digital
devices increasingly occupying buildings at an accelerating rate. These digital devices are changing the load
profiles of the built environment.
In that column the "digital occupant" was technology.
In this column we'll discuss the impact "digital human
occupants" are having on the integration of technology,
buildings, people, and the process surrounding them.
This column will set the stage for several more parts in
subsequent months.

Digital Footprint
Rising health-care costs are forcing an increasing
emphasis on new solutions to our health-care problems. It's also leading to a new focus on holistic solutions
to health care. The health-care industry is currently
fraught with a host of significant problems.
To solve these problems many companies are turning
to new forms of integration, big data collection and analysis, and processes involving new software technologies.
At the heart of digital health is a focus on realizing
the value of quality care, changing the cost curve, how
to share health information (regulations), and how to
secure it (cyber risks).
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Health care begins with preventative measures. These
preventative measures include:
* Management of our surrounding environments (air,
light, noise, etc.);
* Exercise programs;
* Food and beverage management (diets, allergy,
content, etc.); and
* Real-time monitoring of health conditions (telemetry, pulse oxygenation, diabetic blood monitoring, etc.) .
Today, there is a wealth of solutions that are constantly
tracking your digital footprint. Many of these are apps
on your smartphone or wearable devices designed specifically to help manage your health. As new sensors and
wearables are developed to integrate with the internet
via smartphones, several significant changes will occur
with today's health care:
* Significantly more digital data collected by billions
of cell phone users globally;
* Replacement of the old hardware-defined medical
industry equipment;
* Significantly reduced costs; and
* The rate of deployment of new medical monitoring
and analytical solutions will accelerate.
Today's chronic disease and pain problems are complicated and time consuming to diagnose, not least through
an overreliance on the ability of the patient to accurately
articulate their own condition to their medical professional. The introduction of wearables with smartphone
integration will enable significant symptom data collection for analysis prior to ever visiting a doctor.
Donald L. Beaty, P.E., is president and David Quirk, P.E., is vice president of DLB Associates
Consulting Engineers, in Eatontown, N.J. Beaty is publications chair and Quirk is the chair
of ASHRAE TC 9.9.



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