What will your healthcare look like in the next 5 to 10 years? Maybe that’s a question not for legislatures, insurance companies, or even doctors. Maybe you should ask the Internet. The Health 2.0 Conference has a pretty basic premise: user generated healthcare. Individual patients coordinated in large online groups have the potential to shape healthcare the same way that coordinated individuals are shaping the Internet on sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Yahoo groups. Based on the concept of Web 2.0, Health 2.0 is a fascinating new approach to medicine and its third international conference is coming up October 6th and 7th in San Francisco. If you want to get a better idea of what Health 2.0 and the Health 2.0 conference are all about, check out the video of last year’s keynote speaker, Clay Shirky, after the break.
Health 2.0 Con 2009 will have over 100 speakers, many hundreds of live demos of products in an exhibit hall, and a keynote address by Aneesh Chopra, the newly appointed Chief Technology Officer of the US government. Discussion groups will focus on everything from “Gaming and Healthcare” to “defining Health 2.0″. It’s a great opportunity to be at the cross roads of healthcare technology and healthcare philosophy.
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