I just returned from Health 2.0 in San Francisco. What a terrific event! Matthew Holt from theHealthCareBlog.com and his colleagues put together a first rate affair, which is all the more impressive given that this was their first event.
Among the highlights were the terrific questions for presidential candidates we obtained on video. iMedExchange sponsored what was called the “UnConference”. This essentially meant that we were performing a grass roots service by collecting video questions, as opposed to hosting a booth to talk about our site. Rebecca did a super job engaging the physicians in attendance and they were all good sports about getting their voices added to the growing body of questions on iMedExchange.
While there was engaging dialog and strong representation for consumer directed sites, including health search, I was obviously most interested in the various efforts underway to support physicians. There were as many different opinions on how to best build an online physician community as there were companies represented in this space.
It appears that the physician community aspect of the conference generated the most interest for efforts going forward. As a result, the conference team announced a follow on conference will be held in Southern California in March ’08 and the conference will focus more exclusively on physician-centric topics.
