Health 2.0 Europe or why I finally ventured away from North America
More than 500 attendees representing 15+ countries assembled at this week's conference to hear from leaders in online health from the Denmark, Germany, Hungary, the UK, the US, and many more. We heard about initiatives that connect patients to physicians or to each other and use technology to integrate patients into health care systems. We also learned about new self-care tools for patients and search engines or integrated platforms that provide content to patients and physicians.
After three years of conferences in the United States, the beautiful city of Paris was host to Health 2.0 for its European debut. It was quite a success, and quite a new scouting experience for me. As a volunteer, throughout this conference, I had a great look at the "behind the scenes" work that goes on. Working on the speaker management team also facilitated networking.
Matthew Holt moderated the first session around search and content which consisted of 3.5 minute demos from Orphanet, MedWord, Health on the Net Foundation, Healthline Networks, Organized Wisdom, and Webicina. The second session around patients and online communities was moderated by Indu Subaiya, and also included great demos from Pagine Mediche.it, ACOR, PatientsLikeMe, iWantGreatCare, imedo. This session also included commentary by Alexander Schachinger from Humbolt University Berlin and Susannah Fox from Pew Internet Project. The final session on Day 1 was moderated by Denise Silber and included demos of Sermo, Medting Doctors.net.uk, doc2doc, Neurosurgic, and Sante Log.
...to be continued
