About Health 2.0
Last UPDATE: 10.27.07
The Health 2.0 conference was founded in 2006 by Indu Subaiya and Matthew Holt. 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.
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 a earlier this summer.
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 still open.
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 FAQHave more questions? Visit the Health 2.0 FAQ.
Where can I learn more?
The California Healthcare Foundation recently released a report on Social Media in Healthcare that is
You can also read recent media coverage of Health 2.0 here.
