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HEALTH2.0: David Kibbe on Health 2.0

David Kibbe, the doc behind the continuity of care record (CCR), and the spearhead of the AAFP's effort to get family practitioners using EMRs, gave some great comments on the final "looking ahead" panel at Health2.0. You can see more...

HEALTH 2.0 Peter Neupert, Microsoft Health Solutions Group

POLICY/TALKS: TONIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD!! Holt v Browning Logan Clements--better leave the kids at home!

John Graham at Pacific Research Institute is obviously looking for trouble. So he invited two people who really don't get on -- at least in their online comments on THCB -- to come comment about Sicko and the Canada-bashers response....

POLICY: Wow, even the Sec of HHS admits it

Best health care in the world? Apparently even the Bush Administration has given up on that line. Here’s what Mike Leavitt had to say yesterday. The U.S. healthcare system is fundamentally broken, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike...

TECH: Search, Microsoft gets serious

Having said that search is the most important part of Health2.0, I thought I’d better find out something about it. As it happens Microsoft, the #3 search company by user volume, is announcing a major revision to its Live Search...

POLICY/HEALTH PLANS: Why Health Plans need to change their business model

A reporter called about the PNHP which is running single payer ads attacking Hillary, Barrack and John Edwards. Why are they doing it? Because they want to make sure those guys don't give into the insurers. Realistically there will be...

HEALTH2.0: Marty Tenenbaum's vision for an accelerator for Health2.0

At the end of Health2.0 Conference Marty Tenenbaum asked if there was interest in forming a group to accelerate Health2.0. Earlier this was written up on THCB as though it was another standards group. But that’s not entirely what Marty...

Health 2.0 Organized Wisdom's Steve Krein

Health 2.0 UPDATE

Meanwhile, if you missed Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare San Francisco, you have a number of options available to you. This morning we are officially opening pre-registration for the next Health 2.0 over at the Health 2.0 site. To satisfy our...

HEALTH 2.0 Conference Intro + interview with Amy

POLICY: Clinton and Edwards open the back door By Maggie Mahar

Frequent THCB contributor and healthcare rockstar Maggie Mahar is back today with her reaction to the health care plans recently released by the Clinton and Edwards campaigns. What does Maggie think? Read on, but the title should give you a...

Employers’ Health Cost Growth Continues to Moderate: Ain’t It Awful?! by Jeff Goldsmith

THCB welcomes first time contributor Jeff Goldsmith of Health Futures. Jeff will be blogging for us on a periodic basis, so expect more insightful commentary from him in the near future. Among those in the know, Jeff has long been...

Health 2.0: Missy Krasner, Google

HEALTH2.0: Yet more press reaction & footage

There's another excellent summary of the day from Rebecca Vesley at Modern Healthcare Online. And there’s more up at ICYou, including Indu’s concluding selection of “great quotes from the day”.

HEALTH2.0: More reaction to the conference

Let's take you on a quick tour of the blogosphere, and take in some reaction to Health2.0 Writing at that uber blog, the HuffPo, Esther Dyson says some very nice things and then gives a version of her really interesting...

HEALTH2.0: Who was there?

If you want to know who actually was at Health2.0 you can download a list of attendees by name here and by company here. If you want to connect with anyone the best bet is to visit the vibrant FaceBook...

TECH: RWJ sponsors gamers health contest

RWJ’s Susan Promislo writes to tell you all: RWJ has a new open source competition going on that closes in 6 days that I thought also might hold interest for your readers. The current competition, "Why Games Matter: A Prescription...

HEALTH2.0: MSM press coverage starts...

...with Barbara Feder Ostrov's report on the conference in the San Jose Mercury News.

HEALTH2.0: That amazing opening video

From a hazy concept and some scrawled notes from Matthew & Indu, Blake Robin translated, and Sasha, Peter and the team at Scribemedia, with soundtrack from Baron von Luxxury, put together this amazing video

HEALTH2.0: That was the Health2.0 that was

That was a remarkable day. I've never felt so humbled and overwhelmed at the same time. But, then again, Indu and I received so many compliments that we feel very proud of what we accomplished. We are also incredibly grateful...

Establishing Health 2.0 Standards

During the final session of the Health 2.0 meeting, Marty Tenenbaum from CommerceNet asked the audience for a show of hands in support of the establishment of Health 2.0 standards. The response was the majority of people in the room....

The Next Health 2.0 Meeting

We anticipate that the next Health 2.0 meeting will be early March 2.0 in Los Angeles or San Diego. We'll keep you posted!

CLOSING REACTOR PANEL: Health2.0 - Looking Ahead

Lee Shapiro, President Allscripts David Kibbe, American Academy of Family Physicians Bob Katter, Senior VP, Relay Health (McKesson subsidiary) Jay Silverstein, President, Employer/Employee Group, Revolution Health Steve Brown, Founder Health Hero Network, Entrepreneur in Residence, Mohr Davidow Ventures Esther Dyson,...

Go See What icyou.com Has Posted About the Health 2.0 Meeting

At the Health 2.0 meeting today, icyou posted more than a dozen videos of speakers, at the podium and in interviews on the fly. They captured a more accurate, robust flavor than we could possibly have in the narrative reportage...

SPONSOR MESSAGE: PeerClip debuts at Health2.0

The volume of online content targeted at doctors is growing exponentially and includes everything from vertical search, care forums and audio files, to video postings, journal articles, blogs and CME. Yet, with health 2.0 ready to become health 3.0, physicians...

REACTOR PANEL Payers, Providers, & Pharma….and Health2.0

Paul Wallace, Senior Advisor & Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente Joe Gifford, Chief Medical Officer, Regence BCBS Jeff Rideout, VP, Internet Business Solutions Group, Chief Medical Officer, Cisco Bruce Grant, SVP Digitas Health Ted von Glahn, Director, Performance Information and Consumer...

DEMO PANEL & Discussion: Social Media for Patients

Ben Heywood, CEO, Patients Like Me Doug Hirsch, CEO, Daily Strength Steve Krein, CEO, OrganizedWisdom Karen Herzog, Founder, Sophia's Garden John de Souza, CEO, MedHelp International Brian Loew, CEO, Inspire Moderator: Amy Tenderich, Blogger/Journalist DiabetesMine Sophia's Garden is a healing...

DEMO PANEL & Discussion: Search in Healthcare

Tom Eng, President & Founder, Healia Venky Harinarayan, CEO, KosmixAlain Rappaport, CEO, Medstory/Microsoft Dean Stephens, President & COO,Healthline Networks Moderator: Jack Barrette, CEO WeGoHealth (ex-Yahoo Each of the presenters gave a 4 minute demo of their specialized search abilities: gathering...

David Brailer

Will Web 2.0 play in health care? The people who are of the Health 2.0 population do not overlap with the health care user population...yet. Health 2.0 gives a voice and leverage to the people who need health care. Tech...

Opening Panel: The Role of the Consumer Aggregators

Missy Krasner, Product Marketing Manager, Google Wayne T. Gattinella, CEO, WebMD Health Corp. Peter Neupert, VP Health Solutions Group Microsoft Bonnie Becker, Director, Health Category, Yahoo! Moderator: Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, THINK-Health Jane introduced the session, pointing out the 4 panelists firms'...

Introductions to the Health 2.0 Conference - Matthew Holt/Indu Sabaiya

After a spectacular opening video by Scribe Media on the history and current trends in medicine and health care, Matt and Indu made the introductions. They met and conceived the idea of the Health 2.0 meeting just last December. It's...

Welcome To the Health 2.0 Meeting - Brian Klepper

Good morning. I'm here at the SF Hilton, where the Health 2.0 meeting should begin in about a half hour. Last night I wrote my thoughts on the meeting over at The Doctor Weighs In. Throughout the day I'll do...

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POLITICS: Liveblogging Hillary, by Amanda Goltz

Hillary Clinton did a live webcast on Tuesday night. Given what’s happening in less than 36 hours I was way too busy to watch it. But luckily for me and for you Amanda Goltz who works for a certain large...

HEALTH 2.0: Sept 19 pre-ConferenceGet Together(s)

If you’re in San Francisco for Health2.0 Bob Coffield is organizing a Health 2.0: Sept 19 Get Together. There’s also a speakers/sponsors party (which is different to Bob’s get together) at the same time. If you’ve been invited to that...

POLICY: Edwards copies my idea, and a damn good one it is too!

For a very long time I've been saying that the quickest way to get effective health care reform would be to kick Congress out of the FEBHP and make them all buy their care in the individual market. Well in...

HEALTH2.0: More on the conference, and the Google situation

Health 2.0 is officially sold out. However, if you still want to come there is a chance that we will be able make room for you, as cancellations and other changes open up spots. You can still register on our...

What About Health Plan Transparency? - Brian Klepper

As you might have noticed, Matthew has been a little preoccupied lately. He and Indu are putting the finishing touches on the Health 2.0 conference. This meeting will be 4 times the size they originally conceived, with content that describes...

Best of: AthenaHealth's Jonathan Bush on the end of software

AthenaHealth's Jonathan Bush was patient enough to talk through two interviews with me. The first died in a software flameout--the second crashed my computer, but thankfully the recording was still there after my very fearful restart! Jonathan explains AthenaHealth's business...

HEALTH2.0: User Generated Healthcare, Health2.0FAQ (by Matthew) with UPDATE

Q. What is Health2.0 and why are we running a conference about it? The term Web2.0 has been around since 2003. The O'€™Reilly organization both coined the term and created a definition that year, and then they went on to...

Best of: The AMA goes 2.0

Most of you reading about Health2.0 will be bored by now of me talking about Sermo and how they've become the quickest growing physician online community in well under a year--although there's now competition in that space from the likes...

BEST OF: JD Kleinke talks about PHRs, Omnimedix and the Dossia controversy

JD Kleinke is always one of the more controversial and fun people in health care policy and health care IT. He doesn't just write about stuff--he also gets really involved. From his early days at HCIA to his more recent...

BLOGS: A wonderful new blog

A brilliant new blog by a wonderful health care consultant. Go read it. The first post is really, really on point. Go read.

HEALTH2.0/TECH: Way too much going on!

I'm trying to organize a conference with everyone and their brother claiming that they need the last seat and that the dog ate their mouse so they couldn't register. And we've been coaxing our demo panelists through their demos--which are...

JOBS: Contract position for philanthropy advisory firm

You didn't know there was such a thing as a philanthropy advisory firm--admit it! But there is and they're looking for help: Hirsch & Associates, a comprehensive philanthropic advisory firm working with families and foundations on both small and large...

QUALITY/FUNNY: Probably not a major concern in iatrogenic death over here!

Snake in Hospital Gurney Kills Thai Man

HEALTH PLANS/TECH: Selling out a name--et tu Harvard?

Over at HISTalk there's frequent criticism of "awards" that are handed out by analysts to vendors, and frequent assessment of which consultants can be trusted as independent, as opposed to which ones will "sell" an award. Frost and Sullivan gets...

HEALTH 2.0: It's a sell out!

I remember first discussing the Health2.0 Conference with my partner Indu Subaiya and saying, "do you think we can get 100 people to come?" Well apparently we misunderestimated ourselves. As of yesterday the Health2.0 Conference has sold out. There's a...

POLICY/INTERNATIONAL: The Dutch--Better than the US at football, drug-laws and health care organization

The Netherlands is a small nation of only 16 million, and yet they have a record in International soccer that's better than many three times their size. laws about drugs and prostitution that reduce crime, violence and embody toleration, and...

BLOGS: Health Wonk Review up

Brain Klepper has defected back to Pat Salber's blog to host a great edition of Health Wonk Review. But don't worry Klepper fans....we'll have him back here shortly. In fact he'll be running THCB during the Health2.0 Conference. But if...