Health 2.0 2009, San Francisco, Day 2: A Summary
Tags: healthcare, FDA, Health 2.0, Keas, Athena Health
Three CEO's and a President offered interesting perspectives on where they felt Health 2.0 was heading. Alexandra Drane, President of Eliza, made a fascinating point about how most of the data out there is not very useful until it is cleaned with some high touch effort. Eliza actually contacts patients to confirm and clean up data - she mentioned that 20% of the people who were reported to have diabetes, didn't have diabetes - all you have to do is ask!
Jane Sarasohn Kahn moderated a great conversation between Wayne Gattinella of WebMD, Sameer Samat of Google Health, and David Cerino of Microsoft. I was blown away with how clean the new MS HealthVault interface looks (using Silverlight) - it was like looking at a Mac! Google showcased a new telehealth solution, MDLiveCare, that is now integrated with their system and uses video chat to deliver medical and psychiatric services to patients. Wayne focused heavily on their new WebMD mobile apps that he feels (and I agree) are where tools need to be delivered.
Sanjay Koyani from the FDA showed a demo of their Twitter feeds and widgets - similar to what he shared in the Driving the Adoption of Health IT Through Innovations in Social Media. Jamie Haywood from PatientsLikeMe discussed their recent study that was based on data gleaned from their site about lithium and Multiple Sclerosis.
Adam Bosworth did a demo of Keas today. The site has come a long way since last year. Care plans now help consumers improve their health by helping them keep on track with their specific disease state. Adam described it as a "Facebook for health" which gives you steps to better health. There is a slick integration with Quest Labs that turns the raw data into very nice visualizations that are easy to interpret. Keas allows for some personalized and relevant data to be delivered to the patient based on their condition. It is definitely shaping up and I look forward to seeing how it develops over the coming months. Well done Keas, keep it simple and stay out of the red.
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Social Media Meets Healthcare: Health 2.0, 2010
Tags: Health 2.0, H1N1, Health Alerts
Social media meets healthcare next week at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Health2.0 is one of the more innovative and exciting conferences that I have been to, and I look forward to it each fall. This year the event is being kicked off by Aneesh Chopra, CTO of the United States and former Secretary of Technology Virginia.
Given the upcoming Influenza season and concerns around H1N1, I have been asked to demo the Ozmosis Real-Time Health Alerts solution at the Health 2.0 in the Doctors Office session on Tuesday, October 6th at noon. Joining me on stage to demo their solutions as well will be David Best, MD, showing The Doctor’s Channel, Ryan Howard, with Practice Fusion, Chaim Indig, showing Phreesia, and Mark Walinske, with Boundary Medical.
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Health 2.0 2009, San Francisco, Day 1: A Summary
Tags: point of care, Health 2.0, telemedicine, EMR
There are some underlying themes at Health 2.0 this year that are quite different than last year. While 2008 was all about mobilizing for change and encouraging new ideas, this year seems to be focused on incenting people to adopt all the new technologies that have been built.
Aneesh Chopra kicked off the conference with a great talk on his experience with HIT in Virginia and how how he believes that innovation in the Health 2.0 space is critical to controlling costs and improving care.
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Health 2.0 Day 2: Highlights and Musings
Tags: Pharma, Health 2.0, Keas, Athena Health, Sage SoftwareDay two at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco was just as busy as the first -full of amazing ideas and inspiration.
The day began with Jonathan Bush of Athena Health being interviewed by Chris Lawton of the Wall Street Journal. I was struck by Jonathan's blunt appraisal of the problems in the healthcare system. He was especially aware of the plight of the physician and how to incent them to adopt change (money). While I agree that certain things that cost money will require some financial inducement, I also believe that physicians will ultimately do what is in the best interest of their patients.
There was a great panel on various health technology initiatives from around the world. There is an understanding that mobile apps are the key to improving health and access to healthcare in underdeveloped countries. Deb Levine of ISIS showed off some pretty cool apps for disease prevention (HIV) using SMS (everyone's phone was beeping). James Mathews of Sage Software is one of the best moderators that I have seen - his calm demeanor and extremely insightful commentary was excellent.
There was a strange, but entertaining period where Matthew Holt dared to dress in drag and go through the process of testing a number of 'Consumer Tools' from H20. From genetic testing (23andMe) to apps that check for generic drug equivalents, estimate your savings, and even call the doctor to change the prescription, there are all sorts of fun toys for us to play with. Adam Bosworth unveiled Keas to the world today and it looks like a Consumer Decision Support Tool. It takes in health data from Microsoft Health Vault or Google Health and helps the consumer build a health plan while forecasting outcomes from specific diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes. It was a bit underwhelming but I suspect we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
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Tags: Health 2.0Day 1 of the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week was the whirlwind that I had expected. Below is a quick snapshot of highlights from the day's events:
The folks from Google Health, Yahoo! Health, WebMD all agreed that "Trust" is an essential part of an online community and the exchange of information, essentially saying that information comes from trust, and trust cannot be forced by simply pushing information.
Michael Yang (VP & GM Yahoo! Health) announced a collaboration with Healthgrades and will be getting into the healthcare provider search game.
Organized Wisdom announced that they are creating Provider 'Wisdom Cards' so consumers can learn more about their doctors.
West Shell, CEO of Healthline, had a nice demo of his health search site - he talked about their intelligent ad targeting and how they have built a taxonomy to make the ads more contextually relevant - When searching for "AAA" on a health site, think "Abdominal Aortic Aneurism," not flat tires.
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Tags: Health 2.0
Will you be at Health 2.0? Ozmosis hopes to see you there!
I have the absolute privilege of participating in the Health 2.0 conference this week in San Francisco. Health 2.0 has been defined a number of different ways, but in my view, it's a movement that encompasses the various social web technologies, companies, and ideas that are driving innovation in healthcare and healthcare delivery.
Ozmosis will be highlighted in the Clinical Social Networks panel on Wednesday, October 22. The panel is moderated by Enoch Choi, MD of PAMF and MedHelp. Other panelists include Brijesh Mehta a Co-Founder of MedicalPlexus, Lance Hill the CEO of Within3, Tobin Arthur the CEO of iMedexchange, and Rex Jakobovits the Creator of MyPacs.net.
During the panel, I will be showcasing some of the new personalization and trust features being released shortly on Ozmosis. I will share a more detailed review of the features in an upcoming blog post.
This year’s Health 2.0 conference is full of great sessions and I look forward to seeing many of the other demonstrations and updates from companies and products that I have been following intently. From the Patient-Provider Communication panel I will be watching for new insights from Teladoc, they offer an innovative approach to telemedicine and an affordable solution for access to care. I am going to pay close attention to the Provider Search and Directory panel, where we will see speakers from Consumer Aware, HealthWorldWeb, ZocDoc, and Emphasis Search - provider search and ranking is a very real concern of mine.
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