Let me start saying that I have not attended the Health 2.0 Conference in Boston.

This post is an overview of what has been posted about that conference. My reactions based on that output will come later; for now just a small starting remark:

A post at The Health Care Blog on April 23, a combined effort of 4 authors, about The Health 2.0 Accelerator (H2A) immediately made me put a remark of worry on Twitter. Why?:

“Everyone who hasn’t already should join H2A and start participating!

• Large technology and health care organizations, stakeholder groups, foundations and government agencies can work with H2A as an Industry/Program Partner or Sponsoring Members to address broader strategies/frameworks or design specific pilots with Health 2.0 companies;
• Health 2.0 companies and traditional health care stakeholders that are interested in collaborating on projects, pilots or initiatives should contact H2A to discuss opportunities to get involved as a Contributor or Participant; and
• Original wiki members should visit the H2A website and contact H2A to learn more about new opportunities for getting involved.”

No patient mentioned, that’s why. I went back to the Accelerator’s “about” page and no patients there either, just consumers. As my observation about the conference last fall was that I missed the patient’s voice, I thought it would be a good starting point for a watch from a distance.

Let’s start with an overview.

• First of all, the Tweets. Here you find the whole list, this time in chronologically correct order.
• Mobihealthnews had a series of posts, on the Accelerator pre-meeting: AHRQ: Older doctors stifling innovation (an item also covered by Denise Silber); Dr. Greene on handshakes, tomatoes and Jefferson; @ Health 2.0 The patient cannot be a spoke; Mobile: A game-changer for those that get in the game. And a commented picture slideshow.
• Jane Sarasohn-Kahn at Health Populi was very enthusiastic about Medzio which tool had a preview at Mobihealthnew.
• Brian Klepper was overwhelmed: A Breathtaking Display of Possibilities, and so was Chilmark Research’s John Moore albeit in a somewhat different way: Too Many Content Plays = Unsustainable.
• Scott Shreeve had an optimistic expectation of his session on Building Health 2.0 Into the Delivery System:

  “Health 2.0 has already changed the landscape of health by delivering tools and technology that empowers patient communities, results in connected physicians, forces transparency to the system, and restores the patient to the center of the health experience.”
  He admits that it only happens in the margin of medicine, but:
  “This session is the next installment in the quest to answer the question about the role, opportunity, and the ultimate impact Health 2.0 will have on health – and how this new paradigm alters relationships between patients, providers, payers, and the system itself.”
  If he really succeeded? This is what he wrote the next day in his Recap:
  “We did not have enough time to discuss, or take questions, but I believe we were able to accomplish our stated objective.”

• Some observations from Josh Seidman on day 1 and day 2.
• ProjectHealth Design produced 3 posts, two focusing on their grants (here and here) and one on which I will come back later.
• And finally two really content oriented posts, one from Susannah Fox on her own session and Healthcare IT News on the real discussion between Ix and Health 2.0.

To be continued.

Lodewijk Bos

26 April 2009 | Categories: Blog.
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