Elizabeth Horn has spent nearly three decades searching for answers for her daughter Sophia and for families navigating autism. In this conversation, she shares why longitudinal health data combined with emerging AI technology could help parents see patterns that have previously been invisible and better understand what is happening with their individual child. The secret this week is… There’s POWER in Your Child’s Health Data
Welcome to Episode 327 of Autism Parenting Secrets.
This week, I’m joined by Elizabeth Horn, Executive Director of 2M Foundation and a longtime advocate, innovator, and mother to her daughter Sophia, who was diagnosed with autism in 1997.
For nearly three decades, Elizabeth has been asking some of the biggest questions in autism: What is actually happening with our kids? And how can we know if what we’re doing is actually helping?
Now, advances in artificial intelligence may make it possible to explore those questions in entirely new ways.
Elizabeth is helping develop Count.AI, a platform designed to bring together years of information about an individual child, including labs, health records, wearable data, parent observations, and more.
The goal is to make information that has historically been scattered or invisible easier to see, track, and learn from over time.
We discuss why every child is an N-of-1, how AI may help identify patterns that humans simply cannot see, and why parents taking greater ownership of their child’s health information could represent a major shift in how families navigate this journey.
Elizabeth also shares what she believes could become possible over the next five years as AI, longitudinal data, and the collective experiences of families begin to converge.
The secret this week is…
There’s POWER in Your Child’s Health Data
You'll Discover:
About Our Guest:
Elizabeth Horn is Executive Director of 2M Foundation and a longtime health journey advocate, entrepreneur, innovator, and Silicon Valley marketer. She is Co-Founder and LP of Autism Impact Fund, Co-Founder of ChARM Health, Co-Founder of Brain Foundation, and Producer/Director of IN OUR OWN HANDS: How Patients Are Reinventing Medicine. Her daughter Sophia was diagnosed with autism in 1997, beginning a nearly three-decade journey of searching for better ways to understand each child’s individual biology, health data, and needs.
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