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[2602.19319] Health+: Empowering Individuals via Unifying Health Data
Summary
The paper presents Health+, a user-centric health data management system designed to empower individuals by unifying their fragmented health records across various modalities.
Why It Matters
In a healthcare landscape where personal health data is often disjointed and inaccessible, Health+ offers a solution that prioritizes individual control and privacy. This approach is crucial as it addresses the growing demand for patient-centered care and data interoperability.
Key Takeaways
- Health+ empowers users to manage their health data intuitively.
- The system integrates various data types, enhancing accessibility.
- It emphasizes individual agency over institutional control in healthcare.
Computer Science > Multimedia arXiv:2602.19319 (cs) [Submitted on 22 Feb 2026] Title:Health+: Empowering Individuals via Unifying Health Data Authors:Sujaya Maiyya, Shantanu Sharma, Avinash Kumar View a PDF of the paper titled Health+: Empowering Individuals via Unifying Health Data, by Sujaya Maiyya and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) 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. Comments: Subjects: Multimedia (cs.MM); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Databases (cs.DB); Distri...
