About Health 2.0
The Health 2.0 team is made up of co-founders Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt, with John Pluenneke, VP of Business Development, and Sara Walker, Events Manager. Health 2.0 — User Generated Healthcare, our first conference, was held on September 20th, 2007 at the Hilton San Francisco. For more on the history and evolution of Health 2.0 see the Health 2.0 FAQ page.
We also have fantastic support from our advisers. They are Esther Dyson (EDventure), David Kibbe, MD (AAFP), Doug Goldstein (eFuturist), Enoch Choi, MD (MedHelp.org), Jane Sarasohn Kahn (ThinkHealth), Johannes Ernst (Netmesh), John Rootenberg, MD (Fulcrum Fund), Scott Shreeve, MD (CrossOver Healthcare), and Sunil Maulik, Remake Health.
The next Health 2.0 Conference is in Boston on April 22-23, 2009. We’re expecting an even larger crowd than last year, so Health 2.0 Meets Ix promises to be the place to be!
So what’s the definition of Health2.0?
Actually there are several. Defining Health2.0 is also a user-generated phenomenon. You can choose your own definition. Scott Shreeve has one here. Jos Bakker from Philips disagrees and uses another more limited one—his is largely based on the O’Reilly definition of Web2.0. Ingenix CEO Andy Slavitt has a third. David Kibbe from AAFP has recently been talking about it too, and Cleveland Clinic’s John Sharp gave a good talk on it in 2007. Most recently Ted Eytan has been creating a definition including discussion of “participatory medicine”.
Our definition is currently focusing on user-generated aspects of Web2.0 within health care but not directly interacting with the mainstream health care system. That means, a) search, b) communities, c) tools for individual and group consumer use. But clearly there are blurring boundaries between all these, and the question of connecting Health2.0 user-generated content to the wider health care system—which hasn’t exactly adopted Web1.0 with a flourish yet—is coming into closer focus as more clinicians and organizations start to use these technologies to communicate with consumers.
There is huge room for debate about whether we’re talking about limited use of tools and technologies or a wider movement to change the whole healthcare system—or perhaps if it’s just all buzzwords with no substance.
The Health 2.0 FAQ
Have more questions? Visit the Health 2.0 FAQ.
Where can I learn more?
The California Health Care Foundation recently released a report on Social Media in Healthcare by our friend and advisor Jane Sarasohn-Kahn that is quite informative.
You can also read recent media coverage of Health 2.0 here.
