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Interview with CEO of Limeade, Henry Albrecht

By Jen McCabe Gorman Henry Albrecht, CEO of Limeade online employee wellness firm, was nice enough to talk with me on his cell phone in the evening (after 5 p.m. West Coast, 2 a.m. Amsterdam time). Both of us were...
May 8, 2008 in Consumers, Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Health 2.0 Consciousness Dawns - Even In Jacksonville, FL!

by BRIAN KLEPPER Next Thursday, Matthew, Michael Millenson and I are converging at a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conference on public reporting of health care pricing/performance information in Amelia Island, FL, three short barrier islands north of my home in...
May 8, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Economics, Health 2.0, Health Plans, Hospitals, Policy, The Industry, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (1)

The virtues of virtual visits

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Rush-Presbyterian Medical Center's Virtual Integrated Practice (VIP) is more evidence that remote health care can improve health outcomes. At Rush, a team has been refining the VIP model for the past four years. The VIP's objective is...
May 7, 2008 in Health 2.0, Hospitals, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Permalink | Comments (2)

Two quick Health 2.0 "on tour" conference appearances

By Matthew Holt Today, Health 2.0 co-founder Indu Subaiya will be moderating a panel at Consumer Health World in Las Vegas (from the Transmarx folks) while tomorrow I’ll be on a panel at the Consumer Connectivity & Web Empowerment Conference...
May 5, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

The 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Contest

Over at DiabetesMine #1 blogger Amy Tenderich and her buds at Medgadget have got this years DiabetesMine Design Contest up. The winner gets to go to (and probably demo at) this years Health 2.0 contest—as if you needed more incentive!
April 30, 2008 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Wisdom of Patients - Social Media In Health Care

By Jane Sarasohn Khan People -- citizens, patients, caregivers, "consumers" -- are early adopters of social media i n health, compared to other industry stakeholders including providers, plans, payers, and suppliers such as pharmas and medical equipment companies. This is...
April 24, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (5)

An Open Response To HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt - Brian Klepper and Michael Millenson

By Brian Klepper and Michael Millenson A few months ago, the two of us – both long-time advocates for transparency and accountability – posted separate comments on Secretary Mike Leavitt’s blog. Brian asked Secretary Leavitt to square his support of...
April 22, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, Physician Rating, Policy, Policy/Politics, Quality, The Industry, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Security of Patient Data

By Brian Klepper EXCLUSIVE TO THCB: HIMSS Analytics, the research arm of the powerful, thoughtful and highly regarded Health Information Management Systems Society, has published a sobering study, Security of Patient Data - see here - that highlights the gap...
April 8, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Electronic Medical Records, Health 2.0, Hospitals, Privacy, Technology, The Industry, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (1)

Knowledge Like Clear, Clean Water: Muir Gray on Health Care's Progress

By Brian Klepper Over the last year or so, I've written a lot about how health care information will become increasingly available to consumers and health care business, and how this access will drive new decision-support capabilities that will profoundly...
April 7, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, The Industry, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (4)

Rebuilding The Medical Home: What Walgreens Surely Sees

By Brian Klepper Though it probably went mostly unnoticed in the cacophony of health care stories, last week's news that Walgreen's had bought the two largest and most well-established worksite clinic firms, iTrax and Whole Health Management, was a harbinger...
March 27, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, Health Plans, Physicians, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (10)

A Doctor Grows in Brooklyn

By THCB staff Doctor Jay Parkinson became a media celebrity last year as word spread about his unconventional practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Instead of maintaining a traditional office and paying support staff, Parkinson’s operation is entirely virtual and requires almost...
March 21, 2008 in Health 2.0, Physicians, Youtube | Permalink | Comments (33)

Health 2.0: Weighing In With a Reality Check

By Michael Millenson Maybe you saw the article: “Health 2.0 Helps, But Personal Contact Remains Top Weight Loss Strategy.” OK. I made up the headline. But the information comes from an article that provides food for thought for those of...
March 21, 2008 in Health 2.0, Obesity, Online Communities | Permalink | Comments (5)

Mother-Power Online

By Jane Sarasohn-Kahn 4 in 5 moms go online at least once a month, according to My Mommy's Online. The report is based on 2007 data from Simmons Consumer Research Survey published by eMarketer. "Being a parent makes going online...
March 21, 2008 in Consumers, Health 2.0, Online Communities | Permalink | Comments (1)

Nobody Told Me There Would Be Days Like This

Shiri Sandler was diagnosed with RSD, (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), after surgery on a broken bone in her foot at the age of 20. Years later she faces severe chronic pain that has spread throughout her...
March 19, 2008 in Health 2.0, Pain Management, Youtube | Permalink | Comments (1)

The Myth of Health Care Consumerism

By Brian Klepper Last weekend I heard several great presentations at a meeting convened by Jeff Goldsmith, but one contained a point I hadn't heard nailed down before. Kaveh Safavi MD JD, from Thomson Healthcare's Center for Healthcare Improvement, detailed...
March 13, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Economics, Health 2.0, Policy, Policy/Politics, The Industry, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (21)

HEALTH 2.0: Getting the PHR, Privacy and Deborah Peel issue off my chest

By Matthew Holt I’m a card carrying member of the ACLU. I oppose the Patriot Act. And I absolutely oppose the current Administration's decision to ignore the FISA law that already bends over backwards to help the government spy on...
March 13, 2008 in Health 2.0, Policy, Policy/Politics, Privacy, Technology | Permalink | Comments (9)

HEALTH 2.0: Healthline personalizes Aetna (and more)

By Matthew Holt Healthline Networks is pursuing a really interesting strategy as it attempts to "dance with the elephants" in vertical search in health care. Today, it's announcing a number of new partnerships and perhaps most interestingly a deal with...
March 12, 2008 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (14)

HEALTH 2.0/CONSUMERS: Susannah Fox on e-Patients and Health 2.0

Two fantastic video clips from a fantastic researcher. (Susannah runs the health research program at the Pew Internet and American Life program. Susannah's (brief) keynote including the seven word meme that dominated the day! Her interview afterwards:
March 6, 2008 in Consumers, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

HEALTH 2.0: Indu Subaiya's take

Thanks to Michael for his article and thanks to everyone for participating in such a fantastic day and a half. We're just getting the first round up of coverage (here's the San Diego Union-Tribune's piece which was on the Front...
March 5, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Health 2.0 - An Uncompleted Van Gogh

By Michael Millenson Imagine today’s presentations at Health 2.0: User-Generated Healthcare, as looking the way a painting by Vincent Van Gogh might look if he had not yet stepped back from the canvas. In our painting, there is genius at...
March 4, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (12)

TECH/HEALTH 2.0: Eliza & Silverlink, strategic healthcom 2.0

So the gang is all in San Diego getting ready for the Health 2.0 conference which starts Monday (gulp, that's today!) Feverish last minute preparations are apace. I spent some time on Saturday morning talking to two people at the...
March 3, 2008 in Health 2.0, Podcasts, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

TECH/PODCAST: ICW's Jeremy Coote

ICW is a German-based consumer facing record company, that is dominant in Germany and several Eastern European countires. Over here they decided that their skills lie in integrating data from disparate systems, very much a Health 2.0 trend (which is...
February 26, 2008 in Health 2.0, Podcasts, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Health 2.0 – Patient-oriented Health Care, by Dan Kogan

Dan Kogan is a veteran IT developer who built some matching systems now prevalent in financial institutions. He’s now turned his attention to healthcare and has started Health World Web. I (Matthew that is) have been advising him as he...
February 26, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

HEALTH 2.0 Accelerator

At the end of Health 2.0 in September 2007, CommerceNet’s Marty Tenenbaum proposed the creation of an industry initiative to accelerate the Health 2.0 vision. This initiative would do for Health 2.0 what CommerceNet did for e-commerce, educating and catalyzing...
February 19, 2008 in Announcements, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

PODCAST: American Well's Roy Schoenberg

Ever since I saw Roy Schoenberg (of American Well)'s view of the future of patient to physician communication I've been waiting to bring it to you on THCB and the Health 2.0 Blog. And finally I was able to get...
February 19, 2008 in Health 2.0, Podcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH 2.0: Some simple 2.0 Definitions

The Pew Trusts's e-patients blog (the one in honor of Tom Ferguson) has linked over to some very cool introductory videos to socal netowrking, blogs, wikis, & social bookmarking. About a minute each and great to explain these things to...
February 7, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH 2.0/TECH: Collective intelligence in AthenaHealth

Scott Shreeve has spent much of his career promoting open source as a way to harvest collective intelligence. But (irritated by a description from a knocker) he’s done a great job at defining one shining example of a network that...
January 30, 2008 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

PODCAST/HEALTH 2.0: Interview with Tony Miller, Carol

One of the most interesting new Health 2.0 companies is Carol--a Minnesota start-up that is aiming at the heart of the health care system. It's trying to create "care packages" that will in the end (if it works) change how...
January 29, 2008 in Health 2.0, Podcasts | Permalink | Comments (0)

TECH: Google Health getting closer

Those purists who spend their time pondering Google's next move have found a login page for Google Health.... Here's what it says Google will do (no, the page itself doesn't work!) With Google Health, you can: Build online health profiles...
January 24, 2008 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

HEALTH 2.0: NorthEast mixer is tonight

So if you’re in Boston and want to find out more about Health 2.0 tonight, come to the Cambridge Marriottwhere the first Health 2.0 “local chapter” is having a networking mixer with speakers and panel. And yes I’m the speaker...
January 23, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

HEALTH 2.0 San Diego Update

If you're thinking of attending Health 2.0 San Diego on March 3-4, there is still time to sign up for a pass, although like last time we are closing in on a sellout well in advance of the conference. Come...
January 23, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink

TECH: Best headline ever?

Experts: Internet Helpful, But Not a Replacement for Doctors One wag who sent me this noted that it was not very likely that doctors would think that they were replaceable by the Internet, or any one else for that matter....
January 22, 2008 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (4)

HEALTH2.0: iMedix gets big nod...

iMedix, a really new start-up that combines search and community messaging in health care won “best start-up” in The Crunchies. The Crunchies is the latest Web 2.0 awards show run by a combo of Web 2.0 tech blogs including TechCrunch,...
January 21, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

PHARMA/TECH: Drug interaction checkers and more

I'm up over at the Health 2.0 Blog talking about my favorite drug interaction checker. Meanwhile if you (yes, that means you) want to write on the Health 2.0 Blog, please email me and let me know.
January 17, 2008 in Health 2.0, Pharma, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

Four Big Trends - Brian Klepper

Several events and trends emerged over the last year that will reverberate throughout the health care marketplace in 2008 and going forward. While none of these dominated the trade press like some other issues - electronic and personal health records,...
January 16, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, Health Plans, Hospitals, Medicare Advantage, Patient Safety, Physician Rating, Physicians, Policy/Politics, The Industry | Permalink | Comments (8)

HEALTH 2.0: Health 2.0 NorthEast Networking Meeting

The Health 2.0 movement continues to grow and in the north-east it now has a new "chapter"! Mark Modzelewski, from Bang Ventures & Vince Caprio, from NYNBA, are organizing its first networking meeting on January 23rd! The meeting is from...
January 11, 2008 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

On Practical Reforms - Brian Klepper

Now that health care reform is once again an active, visible issue in state governments and the presidential campaigns, the ideas are flying fast and furious. Predictably, some ideas are better than others. Over at Health Care Policy and Marketplace...
January 9, 2008 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, Health Plans, Physicians, Policy, Policy/Politics, Quality, The Industry, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (11)

Health 2.0 San Diego Spring Fling Agenda

So for Christmas we're announcing our first cut of the agenda for our next Health 2.0 conference, to be held at the Westin San Diego on March 3rd-4th. Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare in San Francisco sold out a month before...
December 24, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

My Nomination For Health Care Quote of the Year - Brian Klepper

I was reading through other peoples’ blog posts yesterday when amazingly enough, I was here on THCB and came across this straightforward statement by Paul Levy, the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Of course, many readers...
December 22, 2007 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, Hospitals, Physicians, Policy, Quality, The Industry, Transparency | Permalink | Comments (6)

Policy- vs. Market-Based Reform: RHIOs as a Case Study - Brian Klepper

As Anonymouse insightfully commented, the Harvard team's RHIO study in Health Affairs is very telling about the barriers facing do-gooder health care projects. That said, I wanted to add two comments. First, while RHIOs are unquestionably good public policy, what...
December 18, 2007 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0, Policy/Politics, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

BLOGS: Diabetes Year in Review

Our friend and colleague Amy Tenderich has a just excellent Diabetes Year in Review up at DiabetesMine. It covers Health 2.0 (of course) but also drugs devices, design, and the growth of people with diabetes as a social force. Amy...
December 18, 2007 in Blogs, Consumers, Health 2.0, Pharma | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH 2.0 UPDATE

Meanwhile, if you've been thinking about signing up for a pass to the next Health 2.0 conference you have until midnight today to qualify for our early bird rates. Health 2.0 Connecting Consumers and Providers will be held March 3-4...
December 13, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Rating Doctors Like Restaurants, by Bob Wachter

Robert Wachter is widely regarded as a leading figure in the modern patient safety movement. Together with Dr. Lee Goldman, he coined the term "hospitalist" in an influential 1996 essay in The New England Journal of Medicine. His most recent...
December 4, 2007 in Bob Wachter, Health 2.0, Quality, Technology | Permalink | Comments (16)

HEALTH 2.0 UPDATE Dyson, Kibbe join advisory board

We're pleased to announce that Esther Dyson of EDventure Holdings has agreed to serve on the Health 2.0 advisory board. Esther's tech background is well known and second to none. Esther has been watching, leading and guiding innovation in the...
November 30, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Genomics vs. Proteonomics: Accessorizing Your Genes By Scott Shreeve

I had the occasion this past weekend to be out with my wife doing some shopping. Apparently, I have been too busy of late to notice that my wardrobe had been in some decline. My wife therefore drug me out...
November 28, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

TECH: Tell us about your Health 2.0 company

We're collecting information about companies in the Health 2.0 space. And have been for some time. Unfortunately what that usually means is that really interesting companies email us, then email us again to ask why we didn't respond to the...
November 28, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Health 2.0 Second Life--maybe I can be convinced, by Matthew Holt

Despite all the hype, I’ve been very down on Second Life. I’ve downloaded the app, logged on, blundered around and never figured out how to make it work. I spent my first 4 goes trying and failing to get off...
November 26, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink

HEALTH 2.0: In mourning, meanwhile over at Health 2.0 Blog

Like every proud American I’m spending the day paralyzed by the effect of way too much excellent food and wine yesterday. And like every other Englishman (ex-pat or Blighty-based) I’m also mourning the national team’s appalling performance in losing at...
November 23, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0: Personal Genome Management--The Next Big Thing?

There are 160m Americans looking for health information online and somewhere in the realm of 10–30% of those are viewing and creating their own content. But that has made moderate impact on the mainstream press (with Laura Landro being an...
November 19, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Health 2.0, Computable Data Exchange, and The Sparse Information Model, by David C. Kibbe, MD MBA

One of the processes that Health 2.0 will certainly come to depend upon for its growth and utility is that of computable data exchange. What I mean is this: how do we help our customers/users get their basic health information;...
November 9, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0: Some new players, some very interesting technology

There's lots of activity in Health 2.0. So I thought I'd showcase a couple of new sites today... 1. A company that I've been closely involved with and (FD!) am an adviser to, Enhanced Medical Decisions, has now officially launched...
October 29, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (5)

HEALTH2.0: Vertical Search--The only way is up?

Forrester data in iHealthbeat: Seventy percent of online consumers surveyed said they have used a Web-based search engine to find health-related information, but just 7% of online consumers surveyed said they have used a health-specific search engine, according to a...
October 19, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (7)

TECH/HEALTH2.0: Marissa Mayer speaks Google Health

At Web2.0 Summit yesterday (no, Matthew isn't important enough to be invited to apply for a ticket, but I met a VC for lunch there so I knew it was happening!) Google's new (and presumably temporary) head of health care...
October 18, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (11)

HEALTH 2.0: Sermo CEO Daniel Palestrant

Monday's announcement that Sermo, the social networking site for doctors, is teaming up with Pfizer has left the company one of the most-talked about tech startups in the country. In this clip from September's Health 2.0 conference, Sermo CEO Daniel...
October 17, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Aspen Report 2 - Healing Unbound: The Promise of Advancing Computational Power, Brian Klepper

Laptop-attached ultrasound units that produce startlingly clear internal images for five dollars in the field. Organs that re-generate inside scaffolds. Drugs tailored to an individual’s biology. Micro-images of cancerous cells lit up by bio-chemical markers. Decision support tools that scan...
October 15, 2007 in Brian Klepper, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

HEALTH2.0: Sermo, Pfizer: Big Pharma puts big toe in social networking waters

You can’t trust those Brits. I get a super exclusive on the Sermo-Pfizer deal and those damn Brits at the FT break the press embargo. So much for “honour” amongst journalists! This is the latest version of Big Pharma’s experiment...
October 15, 2007 in Health 2.0, Pharma | Permalink | Comments (9)

A Broad Vision of Health 2.0: Reformulating Data for Transparency, Decision Support & Revitalized Health Care Markets - Brian Klepper and Jane Sarasohn-Kahn

Download health20_1011.ppt Before you start reading, download the document above. It's a single PowerPoint slide that's animated to build. Go into presentation mode, then read along with the narrative below. The term Health 2.0 refers to the concept, described by...
October 12, 2007 in Brian Klepper, Conferences, Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (8)

HEALTH2.0/TECH: Athena Health: The History of the First Health 2.0 IPO By Scott Shreeve

Scott Shreeve writes frequently about Health 2.0, open source and healthcare, topics that as the co-founder of Medsphere, one of the most-closely followed companies in the industry, he is extremely well qualified to write about. If you enjoy this piece,...
October 9, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

HEALTH2.0: Medgadget & Sermo--a rational analysis

First, a quick summary of the Sermo-Medgadget battle. A week ago Medgadget runs a post claiming that anyone using publicly available (if somewhat obscure) information can impersonate a doctor on Sermo’s site. A huge fuss breaks out. See the more...
October 2, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

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...
September 28, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

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...
September 26, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

Health 2.0: Missy Krasner, Google

September 24, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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...
September 24, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

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...
September 24, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0: MSM press coverage starts...

...with Barbara Feder Ostrov's report on the conference in the San Jose Mercury News.
September 21, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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
September 21, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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...
September 20, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

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....
September 20, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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!
September 20, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

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...
September 18, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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...
September 17, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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...
September 16, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (7)

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...
September 16, 2007 in Health 2.0, Podcasts, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

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...
September 16, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (3)

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...
September 12, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

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...
September 7, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

HEALTH2.0: Billing and administrative technologies get some publicity

In yesterday's WSJ article about billing and admin systems Christopher Parks' MedBillingManager, RevolutionHealth's Expense Manager and Intuit's new Quicken Health got some publicity. As did a service I'd never heard of called Smart Medical Consumer which seems to help you...
September 5, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (5)

HEALTH2.0: Facebook as a platform

Unless you really haven't been online for the past few months, you're bound to have noticed all your contacts moving onto Facebook. No longer just for college kids, Facebook is opening up to everyone and seems to be taking off...
September 4, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

HEALTH2.0: Sermo & PatientsLikeMe--getting very famous!

Both Sermo and PatientsLikeMe are getting increasingly famous. Ben Heywood from PatientsLikeMe was featured in Business2.0 last month, and Sermo was featured in the WSJ last week, in a column about Social Networking Goes Professional You can also see both...
September 4, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

BEST OF: Interview with Shawn Jenkins, CEO BenefitFocus

When I was contacted by the PR folks representing BenefitFocus I found out that they'd quietly put into place the original 1995 business plan of Healtheon--connecting employers and health plans electronically around enrollment and billing. (Remember The New New Thing?)...
August 31, 2007 in Health 2.0, Health Plans, Podcasts, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

HEALTH 2.0 UPDATE

We're pleased to announce a number of new additions to the roster of speakers at Health 2.0. First, we welcome Dr. David Brailer, formerly the Bush administration's National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology and now the head of Health Evolution...
August 31, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

HEALTH2.0: The People's choice award

By now you know that the Health2.0–User Generated Healthcare Conference organized by Matthew Holt (THCB) and Indu Subaiya (Etude Scientific) is all set to take place on September 20th in San Francisco. Among other things, there are four fabulous demo...
August 17, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (9)

TECH/HEALTH2.0: Harris Shows Number of Cyberchondriacs increases to an Estimated 160 Million Nationwide

Harris Shows Number of Cyberchondriacs increases to an Estimated 160 Million Nationwide As you know I've been following this number for 10 years (not to mention working with and at Harris during part of that time), and the increase in...
August 6, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

HEALTH2.0: Laura Locke interviews FaceBook CEO

My friend Laura Locke interviewed the FaceBook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I think if I met anyone that successful that young I'd be forced to beat them up on principle. But Laura instead asked some sensible questions about The Future of...
July 24, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

HEALTH2.0/TECH: Big day for Healthline

It’s a big day for Healthline Networks. The health “search and much more service” (if I call them “search only”, President Dean Stephens gets grumpy with me!) has raised another $21m in venture funding and announced deals with several customers—including...
July 16, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0: Brief update and lots going on

So the Health2.0 Conference is really heating up. We will be announcing a raft of new sponsors and some interesting media tie-ins next week. There are already well over 100 attendees including lots of people from across the worlds of...
July 6, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

TECH/HEALTH2.0: Vince Kuratis Connecting the Dots...on Google Health

Vince Kuratis, who knows rather more than he should about DM and eHealth, and maybe knows rather too much to be as optimistic as he is—given all that he knows—has a long and excellent article on Connecting the Dots...Google Health...
July 3, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

HEALTH2.0/PHARMA:Drug Companies & Social Media

The ever wonderful Jane Sarasohn Kahn has a great article up at IHealthbeat on the use of Social Media and Health2.0 by drug companies. Her conclusion is that Drug Companies Lag in Adopting Social Media To Communicate With Consumers but...
July 3, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (4)

HEALTH2.0: User Generated Healthcare UPDATE

We're pleased to announce that Allscripts president Lee Shaprio will be joining the lineup at Health 2.0 San Francisco. Lee will be participating in the "Health 2.0: Looking ahead" panel along with EdVenture Holding's Esther Dyson, RevolutionHealth's Jay Silverstein, RelayHealth's...
June 22, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (2)

HEALTH2.0/TECH: Another Health2.0 aquisition--Healia snapped up by magazine & publishing giant

Healia, one of the leading new health care vertical search engines, despite being an early stage start-up, has already attracted the attention of the big boys. And one of them, Meredith the publisher of lots of female-aimed magazines, decided that...
June 19, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

PHYSICIANS/HEALTH2.0: Sermo AMA interview

This is the transcript of my interview last month with Sermo’s Daniel Palestrant on the announcement of the deal between Sermo and the AMA Matthew Holt: This is Matthew Holt with The Health Care Blog and a quick impromptu podcast...
June 18, 2007 in Health 2.0, Physicians | Permalink | Comments (2)

Health 2.0: Priming the pump- Jump starting health care consumerism By Scott Shreeve MD

Scott Shreeve co-founded MedSphere, the Southern Californian open source distributor of the VistA EHR. His latest effort is Crossover Healthcare. Scott has been tracking recent developments in the consumer driven health plan sector. Today he shares his take on a...
June 15, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (3)

HEALTH2.0/CONSUMERS/TECH: Patient groups online are a source and a force

We know that patients have been organizing online and Laura Landro (who's been there herself) confirms it in a fascinating article. Go read it. Of course this is making some people nervous. Of course, the rush to link communities and...
June 15, 2007 in Consumers, Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)

PODCAST/TECH: HEALTH2.0/TECH/PODCAST: Interview with Venky Harinarayan, Founder Kosmix

Here's this week's interview is with Venky Harinarayan, Founder and (unofficial) CEO at Kosmix. Kosmix wants its new RightHealth site to be the "unofficial home page for health". He'll tell you about categories and "broad" searching, the intricacies of the...
June 14, 2007 in Health 2.0, Podcasts, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0: Knowledge Prostitution

The powerhouse that is Scott Shreeve, not content with jetting around the US, looking after his newest (and 4th) kid and filling my inbox with amazing stuff, is having a go at prostitutes by comparing them to doctors! Personally I’ve...
June 12, 2007 in Health 2.0, Physicians, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0/TECH: Kosmix unveils new page

Kosmix has been known for having a number of search engine deals going with Revolution, Vimo and others. I spent a little time with the crew last week down in Mountain View, and will be interviewing Founder/CEO Venky Harinarayan later...
June 11, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (3)

HEALTH2.0/TECH: PeerWisdom vs OrganizedWisdom

In the great Pacific Northwest, today's fun start-up is called PeerWisdom, which apparently has pulled down a quick $2m to build something in the patient communities space. They’re not alone of course, and even the articlethat "exposes" them (in an...
June 11, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (2)

HEALTH 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare

Web 2.0 technologies including social networking, blogs, patient communities and online tools for search and self-care management look as though they will permanently alter the health care landscape. Come meet the leading figures in Health2.0. You'll see rapid fire demos...
June 6, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (17)

HEALTH2.0: Health2.0 for professionals, by Jos Bakker

Jos Bakker is a Senior Director, Global Strategic Mkt & Business Dev't, Healthcare Informatics, Philips Medical Systems, and a regular correspondent with THCB on the important topics of international health care and European soccer. He sent me an email the...
June 4, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (0)

TECH/HEALTH2.0: Healthcamp2

I was sick on Saturday plus had had certain domestic issues arise after telling my fiancee that I was planning on abandoning her for work on a Saturday that was, err, unpaid. So I missed HealthCamp2. But it looked pretty...
May 31, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

HEALTH2.0: PR slop busted, but not really!

Over at NDDB.net, which is in the physician rating game, there's a rather grumpy post about Steve Case from RevolutionHealth on Good Morning America. Other that they're competitors, I'm not quite so sure why NDDB is so grumpy. I think...
May 30, 2007 in Health 2.0 | Permalink | Comments (1)

TECH/CONSUMERS: Musings on IFTF, Health2.0 and social networking

I sat in a meeting today put on by my old colleagues at IFTF. (There are some other bloggers here, so there’ll be more about the meeting elsewhere). The room is filled with an interesting mix of techies, health care...
May 24, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (0)

TECH/HEALTH2.0: The trademark for Health2.0

I’m at IFTF’s meeting today with a group discussion health new media. The Health2.0 term has been used alot and at Dmitriy’s urging I thought I’d clarify something. Yes I’ve trademarked Health2.0. No, I will not stop anyone using it....
May 24, 2007 in Health 2.0, Technology | Permalink | Comments (1)