“What the Hell is Health2.0?”
September 20th, 2007 by Kevin
The Health2.0 Conference is in full swing by now having kicked off this morning in San Francisco. According to Matthew Holt, the founder of this new ‘movement’ and who blogs over at The Health Care Blog, he defines it as:
“[sic]…transparency and consumerism as important foundations of any effort. In addition, Health 2.0 is a way of linking content with transactions, with more productive result.”
A few examples he gives are:
- Personalized search that finds the right answer for the long tail.
- Better presentation of integrated data.
- Communities that capture the accumulated knowledge of patients and caregivers; and clinicians
- Intelligent tools for content delivery.
Then, he proposes a roadmap for Health2.0 that goes like this:
—>User generated health care
—> Users connect to providers
—> Partnerships to reform delivery
—> Data drives discovery.
It sounds to me like they might be talking about technology that automates biometric data collection (GlucoMON), performs relevant analysis and delivers high-value content in real-time (GlucoDYNAMIX) amongst an extended patient-centric team that includes the patient, caregiver(s), peers and also providers (healthcordia’s diabetes social networks). I think there is also a lead in to a new model of health care extender organization that partners with providers to bridge the patient-technology-provider gap as a way to reform delivery of care away from the provider-centric model (as evidenced by our implementation of regional diabetes extender networks).
Everyone has their own way of labeling things I suppose and that won’t change anytime soon.
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