Archive for March 9th, 2008
Medicine 2.0 Conference in September
March 9, 2008
The call for abstracts for Medicine 2.0 Conference in Toronto is now open. Conference abstracts are due May 2.
The conference includes a broad range of themes including everything from PHRs to new avenues for research and collaboration to Web 3.0 – semantic web applications. Organized by Gunther Eysenbach and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. This unique conference is limited to 200 attendees. What distinguishes this conference from Health 2.0 is that this effort focuses on web 2.0 in the practice of medicine and medical research while Health 2.0 is more consumer focused. See the map of Medicine 2.0.
Is this preliferation of conferences around Web 2.0 in health care the best approach to using these tools to enhance health care or should they be integrated into mainline conferences? Since we are early in the adoption cycle of these technologies in health care, these kind of meetings can help build a base for developing the trend. There may come a point where these will gain respect in mainline health IT.
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