There’s another excellent summary of the day from Rebecca Vesley at Modern Healthcare Online.
And there’s more up at ICYou, including Indu’s concluding selection of “great quotes from the day”.
Above the Fold
HEALTH2.0: More reaction to the conference
Let’s take you on a quick tour of the blogosphere, and take in some reaction to Health2.0
Writing at that uber blog, the HuffPo, Esther Dyson says some very nice things and then gives a version of her really interesting summary remarks in Release 0.9: Health2.1 — Afterthoughts on the Wonderful Health 2.0 Conference
Archana Dubey at HealDeal was particularly enthralled by the virtual physician lounges of Sermo & Within3
Christopher Parks and his Change:Healthcare team were celebrating their Series A, and meeting lots of people at Health2.0 where they really liked the Organized Wisdom approach of searching user-generated content.
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn who did a marvellous job preparing for and running the first panel, shares her perspective on the whole day at her new blog Health Populi. Jane’s words “Health 2.0 is not a conference or a meeting or a thing: it’s a movement. It has to do with changing behavior, sharing, bringing all stakeholders into the process–especially people, and co-producing health care”
The Praxeon guys looked good on the search panel…and they wanted to make sure that the world knows. And why not.
The Diabetch blog has a nice summary of my opening concept, although I’m not sure I’m the “founder” of the movement—Indu and I are perhaps hosts of a conversation bazzar.
Fard Johnmar at HealthCareVox has a brief piece on the conference. Look for more great stuff from Fard on his excellent interview series “The Digital Health Revolution”
Blaine Anderson and the PointClear Solutions folks captured the first part of the day well on their blog
Health care law blogger Bob Coffield has a long and very detailed post on the whole conference, including a summary of his unconference table. There were 15 of those, BTW!
#1 health care blogger Amy Tenderich not only ran a great panel on Social Media (of which her blog Diabetes mine is perhaps the best pure blog example) but also summarized her take on the whole day, in a voice aimed at patients.
Joerg Schwarz from Sun had some interesting comments on what was there (user-generated healthcare) and what wasnt really there—connections to back end data systems.
Jack Beaudoin from Healthcare IT News blog wins the prize for best title! H may have thought that the opening video was a bit self-congratulory, but he seems to have like the Rock’n’Roll hipster atmosphere. I guess when one host is a failed rock guitarist and the other one is married to a successful hipster DJ & musician, that’s what you get!
RHRVentures blog liked what they saw too.
Tobin & Rebecca from iMedExchange sponsored the unconference (Thanks guys!) and are looking forward to even more of a physician focus next time.
Francine Hardaway at Arizona Health Futures has a great run down of the day—Perhaps most interesting is that her unconference lunch table about data liquidity had Adam Bosworth involved. His view? If we admit the patient really owns the data, then everything else will flow from that.
Usable Markets has my second favorite title about the conference Health Hoopla
That lot should get you started!
HEALTH2.0: Who was there?
If you want to know who actually was at Health2.0 you can download a list of attendees by name here and by company here. If you want to connect with anyone the best bet is to visit the vibrant FaceBook group. Or you can contact Matthew or Indu for a specific introduction
TECH: RWJ sponsors gamers health contest
RWJ’s Susan Promislo writes to tell you all:
RWJ has a new open source competition going on that closes in 6 days that I thought also might hold interest for your readers. The current competition, "Why Games Matter: A Prescription for Improving Health and Health Care," seeks innovative new ways that video/computer games and related technologies can transform health and health care. The opportunities for games and health to intersect are expanding rapidly–for example, Texas A&M University is developing the Pulse!! Project, a multimillion-dollar interactive virtual environment simulating operational healthcare facilities, procedures and systems. Pioneer also has funded a team at the Univ. of Washington to explore how adolescents with diabetes may one day be able to transmit health data and communicate wirelessly with their providers via game consoles and cell phones.
At the Why Games Matter competition Web site, people can enter ideas for game-based applications to health and health care and/or comment on any of the entries that have been posted to date.
All competition finalists will win the opportunity to go to Baltimore in May 2008 to present their work at the Changemakers Change Summit held in conjunction with the RWJF-sponsored Games for Health Conference. Competition winners will receive a cash prize. The deadline to enter is Sept. 26 – we welcome participation among readers of THCB and very much appreciate any help in spreading the word about this competition.
HEALTH2.0: MSM press coverage starts…
…with Barbara Feder Ostrov’s report on the conference in the San Jose Mercury News.
HEALTH2.0: That amazing opening video
From a hazy concept and some scrawled notes from Matthew & Indu, Blake Robin translated, and Sasha, Peter and the team at Scribemedia, with soundtrack from Baron von Luxxury, put together this amazing video
HEALTH2.0: That was the Health2.0 that was
That was a remarkable day. I’ve never felt so humbled and overwhelmed at the same time. But, then again, Indu and I received so many compliments that we feel very proud of what we accomplished. We are also incredibly grateful to our legion of volunteers, to our stellar conference organizer Sara Sharkey Walker, and to the Health2.0 Business Manager John Plunenneke who survived 2 days straight of no sleep. Between them, and with lots of help from amazing graphic artist Patrick Wang and super helper Liz Mandel, we managed to smoothly have over 450 people attend a conference when only a few weeks ago we were expecting less than 200.
Establishing Health 2.0 Standards
During the final session of the Health 2.0 meeting, Marty Tenenbaum from CommerceNet asked the audience for a show of hands in support of the establishment of Health 2.0 standards. The response was the majority of people in the room.
If you’re interested in participating in supporting the launch of an effort like this, please send an email letting Marty know at he********@******ce.net.
The Next Health 2.0 Meeting
We anticipate that the next Health 2.0 meeting will be early March 2.0 in Los Angeles or San Diego. We’ll keep you posted!
CLOSING REACTOR PANEL: Health2.0 – Looking Ahead
Lee Shapiro, President AllscriptsDavid Kibbe, American Academy of Family PhysiciansBob Katter, Senior VP, Relay Health (McKesson subsidiary)Jay Silverstein, President, Employer/Employee Group, Revolution HealthSteve Brown, Founder Health Hero Network, Entrepreneur in Residence, Mohr Davidow VenturesEsther Dyson, EDventureModerator: Marty Tenenbaum, Commercenet
David Kibbe – Health 2.0 is part of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ future. Things are changing too fast for many physicians in the country. Half of family practitioners use EMRs to automate existing office procedures. Going forward we need to think about three things:
– We need to change the reimbursement system. – We need to share clinical decision support to save money. – Steve Brown – Health search is much more valuable when there is more patient data. The majors are positioned to create a new health data ecosystem comprised of interconnected health records surrounded by transparency and decision support tools.
Lee Shapiro – EMRs are being used as a substitute for the paper charts. But, as with home accounting software, they become transformative when connectivity is added.
Jay Silverstein – All the imagination and creativity in building community can begin to eliminating the randomness in health. But I also saw a lot of people coming up with visions and tools that are fragmented, that take advantage of significant dollar expenditures, but that are not focused on removing unnecessary services from the system while improving care for the mainstream.
Esther Dyson – We’ve heard today only from the Health 2.0 community, something like the mobile phone system, which just appeared but is only snipping away at the edges without being truly disruptive of the calcified problems that are weighting us down.
