(30 August, 2008)
The Medicine 2.0'08 Proceedings have now been published at
http://www.medicine20congress.com/assets/pdf/med2proc-2008.pdf, as
well as an Multimedia Appendix in:
Eysenbach G. Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration,
Participation, Apomediation, and Openness
J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e22
URL: http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e22/
Printed Proceedings will be available at the congress and will be included in the conference bags.
(29 August, 2008)
Poster presenters: Posters should be mounted by poster presenters on Thursday Sept 4 (starting at 8:30am), and taken down by Friday Sept 5, after the last coffee break (3:30pm). Poster presenters should be at their posters on Thursday during the first coffee break (10:30-11 am) for discussions. Posterboards are 6 feet wide and 3 feet tall. Only use Velcro to mount your posters, no push-pins!
(27 August, 2008)
There will be wireless Internet throughout the conference. There is no Internet cafe, so bring your own laptop if you need to check your email. While we have wireless Internet on the presentation laptops, presenters should make screenshots rather than relying on a working Internet connection - just in case...
(27 August, 2008)
We have assigned session chairs. Session chairs should 1) identify and contact presenters before a session starts, 2) introduce presenters, 3) keep presenters on track regarding their allotted speaking time (20 min for four presentations in a 90 min slot, or 30 min for three presentations in a 90 min slot, incl discussion, 4) stimulate discussion (eg by asking the first question), if required
(21 August, 2008)
REMINDER FOR PRESENTERS: Oral presenters should prepare 15 minute talks (+ 5 minute discussion). Some 90 min sessions have only 3 talks - in this case presenters have 20 mins + 10 min discussion time.
We will provide a presentation laptop (PC) - presenters are asked to bring their presentation (Powerpoint file) on a USB thumb drive and copy it to the presentation laptop (at the latest in the morning or the break before their session). Please name your file as follows: day-room-time-lastname.ppt . E.g. 4-cr2-1330-amin refers to a presentation on the 4th, in room CR2, at 1:30 pm by the first author Amin. 5-aud-1530-dzenowagis would be a presentation in the Auditorium at 3:30 pm by Dzenowagis, and so on (see schedule).
We do have wireless Internet connection, but we advise not to rely on a working connection for presentations - prepare screenshots instead.
It is NOT necessary to submit PPTs in advance - bring them on a USB drive to the conference.
Poster presenters should be advised that poster boards are 6ft (wide) by 3 ft (height). Do not use push pins - velcro only!.
(21 August, 2008)
The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) -now Bronze sponsor of the Medicine 2.0 congress - will be presenting Asklepios at an opening talk at the Medicine 2.0 conference. Asklepios is described as a social networking site for Canadian physicians, medical students and residents in Canada, "which will be a very significant development for enabling the use of web 2.0 technologies by Canadian doctors (...) Asklepios is an online community that allows physicians to make new contacts, get advice from colleagues, and collaborate with physicians all over the country.". The talk at Medicine 2.0 presents an early first look at Asklepios.
(15 August, 2008)
For those who tried to register in the past 3-4 days and got a "credit card declined" error when paying through psigate, we have to apologize.
We had a series of server outages and that had thrown some configurations into disarray, making it appear that the credit card was declined (in reality, the credit card information wasn't even sent out to the credit card processing platform).
We found and fixed the problem.
If you attempted to register / pay but wasn't successful in the past 3-4 days because the cc didn't go through with a "declined" error, please retry now. If you continue to get a credit card declined message, then there is probably a "real" credit card issue - in this case, please contact your bank or email me to seek a solution.
(14 August, 2008)
Poster presenters should be advised that poster boards are 8ft (wide) by 4 ft. Bring pins or velcro to affix your poster.
(13 August, 2008)
The preliminary program schedule is now available at http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/schedule.php. Presenters: Please verify that 1) your oral presentation(s) is/are listed (note: poster presentations are NOT listed here), 2) you are available for your presentation(s). Please contact us immediately if this is not the case.
(13 August, 2008)
There have been some webserver outages over the last 2 days due to a failing hard drive. We apologize.
(05 August, 2008)
BiomedCentral and the Cases Journal have been added as sponsors
(29 July, 2008)
Note that the cutoff date for the Medicine 2.0 guest room block at the Delta Chelsea hotel at Gerrard Street, which is conveniently located 5 minutes from the conference venue, has been extended to August 31st (original cutoff date was Jul 25th).
The hotel will release any rooms that have not been picked up by that date and regular hotel rates will have to be paid for any bookings made after Aug 31st. Note that due to the Toronto film festival many hotels will be at capacity in early September so the room block may fill up before Aug 31st.
If you haven't made your travel arrangements yet, please book now.
The hotels' toll free number is 1-800-243-5732, for online booking and further information see
Accomodation
(09 July, 2008)
We are pleased to announce that MDPIXX will sponsor a "Physician 2.0 Award" for the best clinical case submitted to the MDPIXX case database.
The award consists of one Apple iPhone for the winner.
The price will be awarded during the Medicine 2.0 Congress in a public session.
Eligible for the award are medical doctors. The deadline to submit a medical case to MDPIXX is September 3rd at 12PM (CET Time).
The award will be given to the most valued case, as determined by the MDPIXX user community.
(24 June, 2008)
The congress is a little over 2 months away - time to register and to look into making travel arrangements!.
1. we have begun to send out decision emails for submitted abstracts. If you submitted something and you do not hear from us by Wed, June 24th, then please first check the submit page (to see if a decision has been made), and if you don't see your abstract there, contact us urgently (perhaps your submission did not go through)
2. accepted abstracts are posted under Abstracts. You can also continue to vote for papers or "review" papers (i.e. give the author feedback to their abstract), though this will not affect any acceptance decisions
3. to take advantage of the early bird registration rates, please register before June 30th
4. Regardless of whether or not you plan to attend, PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE SOCIAL NETWORK (if you haven't done so already)
5. we are working on some very exciting keynote speakers - stay tuned!
(16 June, 2008)
Please note that we also have an experimental "digg-like" voting site at http://www.medicine20congress.com/ocs/vote.php where you can view ALL submitted abstracts and do a quick "thumbs-up/thumbs-down" vote for submitted abstracts. You may also volunteer to peer-review the abstracts. For technical problems regarding your login please contact fgoertzen@ehealthinnovation.org.
Authors of submitted abstract should hear from us around June 20th regarding acceptance of their abstract.
Secondly, we have set up a social network for conference participants and reviewers at http://medicine20.crowdvine.com/. Please take a few minutes to add your profile to the network and revisit the site regularly to connect with the people you want to meet at the conference.
Finally, please note that the early registration deadline is June 30th.
To register, please go to http://www.medicine20congress.com/registration.php
(05 March, 2008)
Medicine 2.0 website officially released (and first wave of PR campaign launched). Please help disseminating information on this conference by putting banners listed at the bottom of the sponsors' page on your website or blog.