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
Above the Fold
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.
Go See What icyou.com Has Posted About the Health 2.0 Meeting
At the Health 2.0 meeting today, icyou posted more than a dozen videos of speakers, at the podium and in interviews on the fly. They captured a more accurate, robust flavor than we could possibly have in the narrative reportage of the blog. They’ll continue to post throughout the evening and tomorrow, hopefully with some editing of the more embarrassing moments. Each video provides links to the speakers’ own sites. Go have a look and get a sense of how this meeting really felt.
SPONSOR MESSAGE: PeerClip debuts at Health2.0
The volume of online content targeted at doctors is growing exponentially and includes everything from vertical search, care forums and audio files, to video postings, journal articles, blogs and CME. Yet, with health 2.0 ready to become health 3.0, physicians still don’t have a tool that helps them aggregate all of this information in one location…easily.
And so comes PeerClip, a social bookmarking tool that enables physicians to organize and store online content in a couple of easy steps. While we admit that the notion of social bookmarking is not new, a social bookmarking community exclusively for physicians is novel. Though social bookmarking is the foundation of PeerClip, we have developed it to have depth and functionality that enhances the value for busy physicians.
So, here is why we think physicians will find PeerClip a useful tool:
PeerClip helps physicians organize the medical information they deem most relevant in one online location.
PeerClip provides a forum to share perspectives on important medical content by allowing members to comment, rate and tag while viewing comments and ratings of other physicians.
PeerClip leverages the "wisdom of crowds," in our case peers, to help physicians discover other key content that has been bookmarked into PeerClip by other members.
PeerClip is a secure private community exclusively for MDs, DOs, Physicians Assistants, and Nurse Practitioners. Physicians will be identified only within the closed community. They will have the ability to set their own profiles and to view profiles of other members.
We are excited to be launching PeerClip at Health2.0 today!
