--- title: Yves Béhar: Bring the Doctor with You description: The logical next step in managing chronic disease is technology that tracks our vitals and guides us to better health canonical: https://time.com/23041/yves-behar-bring-the-doctor-with-you/ author: Yves Béhar article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-13T10:46:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:43:12.058Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Yves Béhar: Bring the Doctor with You og:description: The logical next step in managing chronic disease is technology that tracks our vitals and guides us to better health og:url: https://time.com/23041/yves-behar-bring-the-doctor-with-you/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea3f18fa2bf8fb97/6986854be53aba23884d177b/health-tracking.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Table_hands_1.JPG og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Yves Béhar: Bring the Doctor with You twitter:description: The logical next step in managing chronic disease is technology that tracks our vitals and guides us to better health twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea3f18fa2bf8fb97/6986854be53aba23884d177b/health-tracking.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bring the Doctor with You > Sponsored content. 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People want to keep track of their health–and we’d be better off as a society if people had an easy way to do so. As luck would have it, mobile technology is bringing us closer to the day when we’ll be able to essentially wear our doctors. So when TIME asked me to propose an idea for how design can improve the world, my thoughts quickly turned to medicine. I call my concept–and for now, it is only that–LifeTiles: a wearable kit of sensors for monitoring individual health. The sensors–designed to be aesthetically pleasing–would noninvasively monitor the user’s physical activity, environment and bloodstream. The information would be sent automatically to the cloud, where specialized algorithms could be used to monitor it and notify the individual with personalized feedback. A user could also volunteer to donate his or her data, which would be made anonymous and shared with medical experts. Researchers could use the data to look for patterns, understand how disease works and find ways to prevent and cure it. Our doctors would always be with us–and everyone would benefit. _Béhar is the founder of Fuseproject and leads design and brand at Jawbone_  Users could add tiles based on their specific health concerns. Do you want to measure your blood sugar? The air quality where you live? The food you eat? Photo-Illustration by Yves Béhar and Fuseproject for TIME  Medical tracking that both looks good and does good: jewelry-like varied sensors monitor specific vitals for different diseases. Photo-Illustration by Yves Béhar and Fuseproject for TIME  Algorithms would be used to monitor the data that the devices beam to the cloud and respond to users with specific health recommendations. 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