October 27, 2008
Health 2.0 Conference Fall 2008
Health 2.0 Conference took place last week in San Francisco. The theme of the conference this year was "User-Generated Healthcare," and offered an impressive collection of presenters that reads like a Who's Who in healthcare and technology.
A likewise impressive agenda convened panels on topics such as:
The Future of Health 2.0
Health 2.0 Across America: The Great American Health 2.0 Tour
Consumer Aggregators - One Year Later
Search in the Long Tail & Intelligence in Communities
Patient Social Networks
Content, Navigation & Advocacy
Managing Money in Health 2.0
Clinician Social Networks
The Engagement Dynamic behind Health 2.0
Health 2.0 platforms for patient-provider communication
Health Plans and Health 2.0
Provider search, directories & ratings
The Business Case for Health 2.0
Health 2.0 Around the World
Tools for Consumers
Getting Past the Privacy Conundrum
Pharma and Health 2.0
Gaming in Health Care
Disease Management 2.0
Looking ahead - The Business and Society of Health 2.0
One Definition of Health 2.0
Health 2.0 is participatory healthcare. Enabled by information, software, and community that we collect or create, we the patients can be effective partners in our own healthcare, and we the people can participate in reshaping the health system itself.
A couple of interesting quotes from Keynote speaker Clay Shirky
Information: Most valuable aspect of the Internet: “people.” Those who think about health information think of individual transactions–but the value is when people share this information. Yahoo Groups, “the first social software,” illustrates tremendous public demand for collaboration with others. “Wherever people trust each other, the information will flow...”
Parallel: In healthcare, the standing command-and-control structure sees “healthcare” as the sum total of providers, payers, etc.–the established institutions. But the patients are healthcare too–and they outnumber professionals by 100 to 1. Once they collaborate, the central institutions lose power–and have to change.
More at Health 2.0 blog
Next year's meeting will be held in Boston, April 22-23, 2009
The theme: "The Great Debates on the Next Generation of U.S. Healthcare."
* Health 2.0 & Ix vs. Traditional health care
* Knowledge creation: Expert vs Wiki
* Navigating the health care system: Human intermediaries versus automation & algorithms.
* How do you build Health 2.0 into the delivery system?
* What is the future role of the doctor?