Health 2.0 Conference and the Center for Information Therapy (Ix®) are delighted to announce their first joint conference. The two organizations have been discussing the tensions and synergies between Information Therapy and Health 2.0. And they've been looking for a way to collaborate and integrate all the hundreds of ideas about the role of patients in the transformation of health care. So it makes great sense to put the two organizations together for one great conference.
And that conference will be April 22-23, 2009 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.
The theme: "The Great Debates on the Next Generation of U.S. Healthcare."
Health 2.0 & Ix: Tensions & Synergies
Knowledge creation: Experts vs User-Generated Care
Navigating the health care system: Human intermediaries vs. automation & algorithms
How do you build Health 2.0 into the delivery system?
What is the future role of the doctor?
What are the incentives for Health 2.0 and Ix?
There'll be a stellar line-up of cutting-edge demos, compelling speakers and lots of surprises. Confirmed speakers include Don Kemper (Healthwise), John Halamka (Beth Israel), Rob Kolodner (ONC), Dan Hoch (BrainTalk), Esther Dyson (EDVenture), Paul Wallace (Kaiser Permanente), Jamie Heywood (PatientsLikeMe), and many, many more. In addition Health Affairs Editor and America's leading health care journalist Susan Dentzer will moderate a debate about the future of incentives for Health 2.0 and Information Therapy. Here's the full agenda.
There'll be several new product releases, some really innovative new technology and fevered debate over the future of Federal Health IT spending. And there''ll be a fantastic "night out" where the East Coast will show us it's got the most!