"I Was A Guinea Pig At Mount Sinai’s Wellness Lab Of The Future" - Katharine Schwab
Katharine Schwab visits Lab100 at Mount Sinai, an experimental clinic that provides patients with one of the most complete health assessments currently available, from cognition and balance to body composition and dexterity. Lab 100’s creators have big ambitions: to redesign health care by focusing on healthy people. “This is really aiming to give you a more quantitative picture of where you fall on the health continuum,” said David Stark, MD, Lab100’s creator and director, medical director of the Institute for Next Generation Health Care at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “The goal being that we empower you to make your own lifestyle changes.” The technology inside Lab100 may end up in the real world in several different forms. The assessments and visualizations have already been integrated into other programs at Mount Sinai, like the sports medicine and rehabilitation medicine department and the neuro-performance center. Joel Dudley, PhD, director of the Institute for Next Generation Health Care at Mount Sinai, the institute that Lab100 sits within – is already working on bringing a similar version of the physical lab to other countries. “Health care is the only industry where you don’t develop products based on user feedback,” Dr. Dudley said. “If you come back in six months and it looks like this, it means we failed.”
- David Stark, MD, Assistant Professor, Health System Design and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Medical Director, Institute for Next Generation Health Care
- Joel Dudley, PhD, Director, Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Executive Vice President, Precision Health, Mount Sinai Health System