September 23, 2007
Health 2.0 Conference
Health 2.0 Conference took place this past week in San Francisco. The goal of the conference was to get the leaders in Health2.0 to meet each other and to meet the key individuals in large health care organizations, technology, finance and anyone with an interest in the topic. Online consumer aggregators such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, WebMD discussed their views on the use of Health2.0 in the future of online health. In addition leading providers & health plans like Kaiser Permanente, Regence BCBS and BCBS Minnesota provided insights on how they plan to use these Web 2.0 tools.
There were demonstrations of the latest innovations from big and small Health2.0 technology companies. Some of the panels and discussions centered around topics including:
> fostering new online patient communities
> designing health-focused search engines
> connecting physicians to each other
> providing health care tools for consumers (including administrative and clinical tools)
For more information:
Health 2.0 website
Health Blog
Update 9/24/07
Some videos from the conference