But I do have an idea, and that idea is called Housing for Health.

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We need to invent what I call a personal health system.

These are the foundations of what's going to make personal health possible.

Do they have insurance to fill the prescription?

And this happens to millions of people every year.

It's unaffordable globally.

So Mia Lozada is Chief Resident of Internal Medicine at UCSF Medical Center, but for three years as an undergraduate she was a Health Leads volunteer in the clinic waiting room at Boston Medical Center.

They got electricity in their homes, they increased education and they got primary health care.

Now we may think that's good or bad, but in either case it's real.

Now the second example of customization and by the way, you can't customize care if you don't know your own goals, so health care can't know those until you know your own health care goals.

So what you're sort of seeing here is an example of disruptive technologies, of mobile, social and analytic technologies.

And the email was from Dr. Jack Geiger, who had written to congratulate me on Health Leads and to share, as he said, a bit of historical context.

You give your money to Doctors Without Borders, you give your money to Partners In Health, and they'll send in the doctors, and they'll send in the lumber, and they'll helicopter things out and in.

Health Leads has to reinvent the prescription for basic resources.

I want to share some personal friends and stories with you that I've actually never talked about in public before to help illustrate the idea and the need and the hope for us to reinvent our health care system around the world.

So now at Harlem Hospital Center when patients come in with an elevated body mass index, the electronic medical record automatically generates a prescription for Health Leads.

So our feeling is, if it's good enough for the rugby team, it's good enough for health and poverty.

Now, the last thing that I want to talk to you about is care customization, because if you've got care anywhere and you've got care networking, those are going to go a long way towards improving our health care system, but there's still too much guesswork.

And I tell you, this kind of care customization for everything from your goals to your genetics will be the most game changing transformation that we witness in health care during our lifetime.

And that not only leads to a better set of clinical choices, but the doctor can also prescribe those resources for the patient, using Health Leads like any other sub specialty referral.

But what if instead of waiting for hours anxiously, the waiting room became the place where Health Leads turned your heat back on?

The longer I stayed in the hospital, the sicker I became, and the more expensive it became, and this happens to millions of people around the world every year.

Our scientists and engineers are the ones that are tackling our grandest challenges, from energy to environment to health care, among others, and if we don't know about it and understand it, then the work isn't done, and I believe it's our responsibility as non scientists to have these interactions.

If airports can become shopping malls and McDonald's can become playgrounds, surely we can reinvent the clinic waiting room.

But the thing is that it's made this simple that whenever I hop on, it sends my data to Google Health as well.

These population studies that we've done have created tons of miracle drugs that have saved millions of lives, but the problem is that health care is treating us as averages, not unique individuals, because at the end of the day, the patient is not the same thing as the population who are studied.

The person, in my view, who has done the best job of this in the health care area, of building a system in a very poor area, is Dr. Paul Farmer, who, many of you know, has worked for now 20 years with his group,

But until such time that these amazing technologies are available to all of us, and even when they are, it's up to us to care for, and even save, one another.