Contribution received to the FET Flagships consultation: "Digital Health" Flagship

John Goodacre, University of Manchester

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Digital Societal Health: Despite the significant advancements in the capability and availability of compute across society, the technological systems of today are still very visible and intrusive to the individuals in which they operate.  The deployment and power consumption costs of a cloud server, the programming of the thermostat in the home, searching the internet or email, or extracting a specific record of data from a national database; In each case the person interacts directly and consciously with the data and computer system whether it is the screen of a smart phone or a PC terminal.The view of pervasive and ubiquitous computing in a modern society is one where the human interaction, the effects and control of computing can be developed in various ways be made unobtrusive and integrated with the actions and operations for which it exists.Market terms such as Big Bata and Internet of Things, tends to hide the need of computing to develop into a ubiquitous part of society. I therefore propose the need for a new cross-functional area of development as a coordinated flagship that spans across computer science from the individuals that interact with computers, the chips that deliver the services, and the data that must be manipulated to connect people to the technology held together through resolution of specific societal challenges through a new EU Flagship program.

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