Health+: Empowering Individuals via Unifying Health Data

TL;DR

Health+ is a user-centric system designed to unify and manage personal health data across various formats, empowering individuals to control and share their health information securely and intuitively.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multimodal health data management system that enhances individual agency and privacy without requiring institutional overhaul.

Findings

Supports uploading, querying, and sharing diverse health data modalities

Provides intuitive interfaces and intelligent recommendations

Ensures secure and efficient data integration and storage

Abstract

Managing personal health data is a challenge in today's fragmented and institution-centric healthcare ecosystem. Individuals often lack meaningful control over their medical records, which are scattered across incompatible systems and formats. This vision paper presents Health+, a user-centric, multimodal health data management system that empowers individuals (including those with limited technical expertise) to upload, query, and share their data across modalities (e.g., text, images, reports). Rather than aiming for institutional overhaul, Health+ emphasizes individual agency by providing intuitive interfaces and intelligent recommendations for data access and sharing. At the system level, it tackles the complexity of storing, integrating, and securing heterogeneous health records, ensuring both efficiency and privacy. By unifying multimodal data and prioritizing patients, Health+ lays the foundation for a more connected, interpretable, and user-controlled health information ecosystem.