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31
December
Moving up the health care value chain
Last week, I participated in a very cool live podcast with the ReadWriteWeb editor Richard Macmanus. While I am finishing up my commentary based on that experience, I did want to comment on another post by Richard who is one year into his diagnosis of Type I Diabetes. He mentioned that his favorite Health 2.0 application was MyMedLab.
In full disclosure, I serve as an advisor to the company as well as a participant on the call that was conducted. I became involved with MyMedLab while conducting my own survey of promising Health 2.0 companies, tools, and technology. I was intrigued by their Health 2.0 delivery model of leveraging the internet to remove inefficiencies of time, location, and physician approval for routine wellness laboratory testing.
9
December
Plus Ca change.gov. . .
I’ve previously whined that it’s going to be a lot harder for President Obama to take advantage of social media than it was for the Obama campaign to do so.
I’m afraid to report that proof is beginning to emerge.
Over at change.gov, the web outpost of the Obama/Biden Provisional Gover. . .I mean, Privately Funded Transition Operation, there was an earnest public solicitation of ideas about healthcare. Over 3,700 comments came in.
9
December
e-patient Dave & his e-doctor describe their journey in participatory medicine
Over at the e-patients blog, blogger e-patient Dave has posted video clips from his presentation with Dr. Danny Sands at the Connected Health Forum last month at Harvard Medical School.
Dave describes the presentation called "Illness in the Age of 'e' " as a "full-length case study in participatory medicine." Here's the first video clip. To see the rest go to the e-patients blog, where presentation slides are also uploaded.
8
December
A “blog rally” to improve the end-of-life journey
At least 40 health bloggers plan to post a notice about Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project this Thanksgiving weekend. The Health Care Blog thanks them for their support.
Matthew and Alexandra Drane, CEO of Eliza Corp., came up with the idea after discovering they shared a similar interest in improving end-of-life care. Watch the video below to learn more about Alex's sister-in-law's end-of-life journey that inspired this campaign.
26
November
Daniel Palestrant, CEO, Sermo at Health 2.0
Sermo has very quickly become the big Kahuna in the physician social network space. So big in fact that its rivals trumpet how different they are from it in their models and approach. Yet it was only two years ago that Sermo was still putting a little votive candle in a net for every doctor who signed up—and the major problem it was facing was corralling the packs of dogs charging around its office in a basement in Cambridge, MA. A lot has happened in under two years, but I understand animal control is still a major function! So we thought that having Daniel Palestrant tell us where Sermo is now would be a great way to kick off day two at Health 2.0 and to talk about the new deal with Bloomberg. (The net broke at around 12,000 candles I believe, and no dogs were mentioned in the making of this video, sadly!)
8
November
Health 2.0 — the morning after…
The stage is down, the cameras are gone, more than1,000 people have headed home (other than the 50 or so at the Healthcamp which is happening right now)
some reflections in stream of consciousness fashion….
I think I know why so many people at the un-conference were crowded around the topic “Pharma & Social Networking” (there’s a crowd of companies looking for support and a crowd of Rx companies….….in the breakouts I was amazed that Wellness 2.0, Gaming,& Social Networks had a couldn’t-get-in-the-door-crowd, while Genomics (with many more millions in VC) was much emptier……I loved the videos showing how wild people got at the IDEO session and it was fun to hear Doug Solomon tell the tale……we put our trust in James Mathews (as did his panelists) and, boy, was that repaid—what’s happening outside the US is amazing and James is too…..why is Jon Bush running Athenahealth and not a full-time stand-up comic (props to Chris Lawton for somehow managing to “interview” him!)….how come at the wrap up panel it was five guys allwith beards?…..we did lots and lots of preparation for all our demos (thanks Jen!), but we could and should have done more—and demanded more from some presenters. But the ones who demanded the most from us had many ofthe best demos (yes, Yael & Elif, I do mean you!)…..the exhibit hall was indeed buzzing, rocking, anda hive of exchange—everyone I spoke with said that they had more partnership and customer leads than they could follow up with…..I was stopped by two people who had real live Health 2.0 experiences, theirrelatives went into hospital during the show, they sought out Health 2.0 companies (PharmaSurveyor was one, DoubleCheckMD another) and stopped mis-diagnoses in its tracks—this dam is bursting and will burst wide open as these clinical tools for consumersget better and better……and then I got this email “How do we keep a breast of H20 developments between conferences? It would be such a drag to miss out.” Can’t imagine what that’s referring to……..But the answer is to use the Health 2.0 Networkto keep in touch with everyone else….and of course please remember to download the One Slide from Engage with Grace (we won’t mind you crying when you see the soon to be upAlex Drane’s speech, everyone else did….)
24
October
Ready or not, it’s time for Health 2.0!
Tonight the party starts, the beautiful (and not so beautiful) people gather, and the shows under way—and that’s just the Health 2.0 team! There’s also 900 + speakers, guests, media, volunteers and the community is buzzing. Wall Street may be going crazy, the election may be a cakewalk (or not) but in health care interest in combining user-generated content with personalization based on data is growing. Last year around 500 people got together to find out what Health 2.0 was. Really, we only had about 35 decent optionsfrom which to choose our eventual 25 demo panelists (and one or two of those were a little of a stretch).
21
October
Video games to revolutionize health and health care
The worldwide video gaming industry is a thriving business – with hardware and software sales reaching 43.5 billion in 2007 and projected to grow to more than 61 billion in the next 4 years. This growth isn’t propelled by just the latest teenage gaming craze, but by a variety of nontraditional organizations integrating video games, immersive simulations and virtual worlds to improve effectiveness and engagement across all business lines.
20
October
Innovations in second life
THCB Note: Alice Kreuger recently updated THCB about all the exciting things she's doing in Second Life on Virtual Ability Island. Here is a quick rundown. If you're unsure about second life, check out this video.
17
October