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Thursday, October 15, 2009

The Best of Health 2.0 Conference, San Francisco, 2009



1.     Social networks as a part of health (1) -- “You spend 15 minutes with a doctor, and the rest of the time with everyone else” – Chris Schroeder, HealthCentral, as interviewed by Elizabeth Cohen from CNN

2.     Social networks as a part of health (2) – “make personally relevant information clinically relevant” – anonymous

3.     Competition – “Our competitors are cheeseburgers, couches, and intertia” – Alexandra Drane, Eliza

4.     Hype Cycle – “We should pay people to smoke [because in the short term, longer lives are more expensive to the system]”. -- J.D. Kleinke, Mt Tabor Online Services

5.     Slices of a blunt object – “It’s a big jump to ‘manage your condition online’. Maybe we need to take a step back and start with ‘schedule an appointment’.” – David Cereno, Microsoft
*approximate