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Healthcare Reform, Conversations and HealthCamp

Joel Selzer (LinkedIn profile), my Co-Founder at Ozmosis, and I will be participating in HealthCamp Maryland next week. Joel shares some insight into what HealthCamp is all about. 

With healthcare costs skyrocketing, projected to reach $4.4 trillion by 2018, we can no longer delay fundamental reform of our healthcare system.  We simply can't afford it.

As President Obama prepares to address the American Medical Association on Monday and Democrats on the Hill near a consensus for healthcare legislation, we may finally see some semblance of a plan for health reform emerge.  Yet, no matter the outcome in Washington, physicians, consumers, activists - all of us involved in healthcare - can take action today to drive positive change within our local communities.

If you haven't attended a HealthCamp yet, I encourage you to do so. This is the venue for a vitally important conversation about the future of healthcare, both in this country and around the world." says Mark Scrimshire, the founder of HealthCamp.  This is a collaborative meeting that  brings together interested parties from across the Health Care industry to consider how we can create a more inclusive, participatory structure that focuses on health, wellness and disease prevention.

"An educated, informed and involved health care consumer is a vital part of the delivery of effective, quality healthcare," Scrimshire says, and more importantly he continues, "participatory health care is the future and how that is achieved is a core issue being addressed by the participants at HealthCamp." 

Join us at HealthCampMd on Friday, June 19th at Stevenson University in Owings Mills, MD and become part of the conversation.  This time around we will be exploring the use of Social Networks, Open Standards and the latest Internet and Mobile Technologies in the transformation of healthcare.

Joel Selzer
Co-Founder, Ozmosis