On the road--ACHE Social Media, NCI, Healthcamp NYC, Blogging networking LA

By Matthew Holt

My time off for good behavior is at an end and today I get back on a plane for four fun conferences and a party.

Wednesday I’m keynoting the ACHE Social Media in Healthcare meeting in San Antonio, TX and then will be moderating a couple of panels, one with two leaders in social media from outside health care and one with several hospital execs. Much more here, and well worth checking out if you’re an ACHE member or may want to become one.

Thursday & Friday I’ll be at the NCI Informatics for Consumer Health Summit. It’s an invite only meet but it’s being webcast (although for some reason the bit I’m doing with Doug Goldstein of iConecto is private…perhaps we have something extremely valuable to say? Here’s where you can get the webcast although it’s not quite apparent to me exactly how you get a log-in (I do know it’s open to everyone)

Friday night I’ll be in Washington at a party at my friend Maggi Cary’s house. If you know me or Maggi and want to come, drop me an email.

Saturday is HealthCampNYC at Teacher's College up near Columbia from 8.30 onwards. Health 2.0 is a sponsor of Healthcamp and is working hard to coordinate the Health 2.0 Conference with the Healthcamp unconference. Our good friend Eugene Borukhovich has organized this Healthcamp, and he also runs the Health 2.0 NYC chapter. So put on those thinking caps and come prepared to join in active discussions around Health and Wellness. The actual topics and substance of those discussions are not driven by the organizers, but by the participants. It’s cheap to sign up ($25) and they’re great days (and I’m looking forward to being able to fully participate as usually they’re immediately before Health 2.0 Conferences and I have to miss most of them. But sing ups end on Thursday so DO IT NOW. And if you want to know more about Healthcamp as a whole chef de camp Mark Scrimshire is on Blogtalk Radio tomorrow at 9am EST

Monday I’ll be in Los Angeles at a meeting called “Health and the blogosphere” at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism (which is co-located with the now on-the-rocks football program at USC). There a group of bloggers and media people will be wondering how we become as famous as Val Jones. Oh, and I think we’ll be discussing other stuff too.

If you’re in the neighborhood for any of these, stop by and say hi!