In yesterday’s WSJ article about billing and admin systems Christopher Parks’ MedBillingManager, RevolutionHealth’s Expense Manager and Intuit’s new Quicken Health got some publicity. As did a service I’d never heard of called Smart Medical Consumer which seems to help you beat up providers and insurers who aren’t playing fair. (If you can’t get into that WSJ site, and it should be free, there’s a summary here)

Of course (plug plug) two weeks from tomorrow Revolution & Quicken are on the "Consumer Tools" panel at Health2.0: User-Generated Healthcare, and Christopher from MedBillingManager will be in the  crowd and we’ll try to remember to give him a shout-out!

Unless you really haven’t been online for the past few months, you’re bound to have noticed all your contacts moving onto Facebook. No longer just for college kids, Facebook is opening up to everyone and seems to be taking off amongst professionals in a way MySpace never did. And just to prove it, we created a Health2.0 group on Facebook. Soon we’ll even add something to it!

Additionally Facebook is becoming a development platform for other applications. One example is this health quiz created by search engine Healia, that is on FaceBook. So go take the Healia Health Quiz.

Both Sermo and PatientsLikeMe are getting increasingly famous. Ben Heywood from PatientsLikeMe was featured in Business2.0 last month, and Sermo was featured in the WSJ last week, in a column about Social Networking Goes Professional

You can also see both Sermo’s Daniel Palestrant and Ben Heywood in this short video from Business 2.0

And of course you can see both of them and many, many more at the Health2.0 Conference on September 20th. Sermo’s actually buying the drinks sponsoring the post-conference cocktails. Meanwhile, you might want to check out the incredible movie So Much So Fast about Ben’s brother—who inspired the idea of PaientsLikeMe and whole lot more.

And yes, they were on THCB last year and in this article I wrote for Digital Healthcare & Productivity in February. So we’re still ahead of the MSM here…just!