John Sharp is an IT Manager for a major medical center in Northeast Ohio. Areas of expertise include: ehealth, personal health records, Web 2.0 technologies, social media and project management. He is active in the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society and the American Medical Informatics Association. The opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author.
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September 16, 2008
Last week this innovative group met in Washington, DC, to discuss “Health 2.0 is participatory Healthcare”. This user generated conference tackled toipcs like social media and engaging the public. One of the presentations was by Jen McCabe Gorman on the NextHealth model/concept with some critique of current Health 2.0 approaches with “the tendency of communities to attract similar people”, many of them white. How can we move from here to “content + community + commerce+ coherence” as the NextHealth model suggests?
