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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Social Media And Public Health: New Tools In The Battle Against Influenza
Tags: H1N1, Health Alerts, CDC, WHO, Veratect
For the past six weeks Ozmosis has been quietly testing a new Real-Time Health Alerts solution. 
In its early stages, this tool is a joint project between Ozmosis and Veratect, a company that tracks disease outbreaks globally. While we had not intended to publicly launch the Health Alerts solution yet, the recent events around the Swine Influenza outbreaks have caused us to push ahead. After launching to the Ozmosis community yesterday, the system has quickly generated significant usage and results. Unlike a simple RSS or Twitter feed for Swine Flu and Pandemic alerts, the Ozmosis solution allows its physicians to:
- view, search, and filter through alerts state by state
- discuss management and treatment options, share health department and CDC updates
- submit their own potential cases for review which are then evaluated by Veratect, verified and reported back to Ozmosis, the CDC, the UN, and other health agencies
