Archive for September 25th, 2007
More Blog Posts on the Health 2.0 Conference
September 25, 2007
- Neil Versel’s Healthcare blog has links to the vendors represented at the conference
- Esther Dyson summarizes what she said in the summary panel at the conference (one of the highlights of the conference for me was to meet Esther Dyson – by the way, she was recently on Charlie Rose)
- A Google blog search will lead you to many more postings about Health 2.0 and the conference aftermath.
Health 2.0 Conference Summary – From the Consumer Perspective
September 25, 2007
One of the most articulate summaries of the Health 2.0 conference is by Amy Tenderich, Blogger/Journalist DiabetesMine. She sees real positive outcomes of this movement, especially for diabetics. She cites Google’s Missy Krasner as saying “it’s not enough for that company to build safe place for online medical records; people have to be able to DO something with these records. The records have to be actionable, and as yet, they’re still “a long way from delivering the value that consumers want” in health.”
She also notes the importance of social networks in chronic illness and the essential role of trust.
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September 25, 2007
On the HealthcareIT Blog, Jack Beaudoin reports on some of the rock and roll enthusiasm of the Health 2.0 conference which he readily compares with the dot com boom but with a caveat. The value of the products, whether social networking or search, must be associated with real value that translates into cash value.
The creative ideas on these sites have been successfully launched but must generate cash with a viable business plan to survive. They should attrach venture dollars but need longer term plans as well. I think there were people in the room who could do this and hope that they will succeed.
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