Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)

MaRS Centre (Toronto, Canada)

September 17, 2009 – September 18, 2009

Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.
The congress is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.

This conference distinguishes itself from "Health 2.0" tradeshows by having an academic form and focus, with an open call for presentations, published proceedings and peer-reviewed abstracts (although there is also a non-peer reviewed practice and business track), and being the only conference in this field which has a global perspective and an international audience (last year there were participants from 18 countries).
An academic approach to the topic also means that we aim to look "beyond the health 2.0 hype", trying to identify the evidence on what works and what doesn't, and have open and honest discussions.

Medicine 2.0 '08 and '09 sold out with almost 200 participants each, and were praised to have an outstanding program, with internationally renowned speakers, a philosophy of "openess", and a very conducive atmosphere for discussions and networking.

What is Medicine 2.0?

Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies as well as semantic web and virtual reality tools, to enable and facilitate specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between these user groups.

To pre-register for future Medicine 2.0 conferences (Medicine 2.0'10 and Medicine 2.0'11 will be hosted in different cities/countries/continents), please preregister or create an account with this site (if you have an account, go to your profile page and mark the 2010/2011 checkboxes).

Photos from Medicine 2.0'09 on Flickr.

Who should attend?

Academics (health professionals, social scientists, computer scientists, engineers)
Software and Web 2.0 application developers
Consultants, vendors, venture capitalists, business leaders, CIOs
End-users (health professionals, consumers, payors)

What participants at Medicine 2.0'08 said (quotes from our evaluation forms):

"broad audience... this was by far the most diverse and far reaching audience that I have seen in the past 5 years"
"this was an extremely stimulating conference"
"very comprehensive range of topics and presenters"
"a truly fantastic event!"
"This was an exceptional event populated by an amazing breadth of researchers, bloggers, academics, companies, and global health crusaders.
Often at health conferences you see the same speakers and firms over and over, rehashing the same demos or Powerpoints. Not in Toronto.
Conversations exceeded all expectations, and the collegial feel encouraged open debate among participants."
"I loved how everyone was actively participating - laptops being used to engage in the current presentation by tweeting, accessing a mentioned site, blogging etc."
"round tables in the main auditorium facilitated networking nicely"
"I loved the diversity of the attendees"
"rich debate following each presentation"
"very high level of presentations"
"I learned so much! Where do I start?"
"state of art in the field"
"thanks for putting all of this conference together and doing so in an opensource style! (...) It was truly amazing how willing people were to share their true concerns and most forward-thinking ideas within this atmosphere."

Please contact us for ideas and suggestions for Medicine 2.0'09 (Sept 2009), including proposals for partnerships and sponsorships, keynote speakers, organizing / scientific committee member suggestions.

Aggregated RSS of all relevant Medicine 2.0 Congress feeds

The Medicine 2.0 Aggregator is a little tool developed using Y! Pipes that aggregates feeds from various social media applications (Twitter, Crowdvine, FlickR, Slideshare, and others), recognizing the Medicine 2.0 Congress tags (medicine20, or #med2 in Twitter), and spitting out an aggregate RSS feed. We will even try something revolutionary this year: We'll feed titles of submitted abstracts and conference registrants into the data stream, in real time, as they are submitted. So grab the RSS feed above and stick it into your iGoogle homepage, your blog, on your website, etc.

Announcements


ePatient inclusion at Medicine 2.0
(Logo credits: Lucien Engelen, one of the co-organizers of Medicine 2.0'10 in Maastricht) Medicine 2.0 has a long history of including patients. One of our first keynote speakers at Medicine 2.0'09 was Epatient Dave (Dave DeBronkart), who subsequently became a rockstar of the epatient movement (and we are proud of having played a role in this). Dave is also on the scientific advisory board of Medicine 2.0'12, and will once again speak - the tentative title of his 2012 talk is "Gimme my damn data - 3 years later" - a follow up of his talk in Toronto 2009. (And Jamie Heywood - cofounder and chairman of PatientsLikeMe - will be a keynote speaker at Medicine 2.0'12 - few other companies had such a revolutionary impact on the empowerment of epatients). About a dozen or so epatients were present at all previous Medicine 2.0 conferences, with reduced or waived registration fees. We are also happy to announce that in 2012 we are once again giving free tickets to qualified epatients (NO healthcare professionals, healthcare students, CEO's of startups etc. please). Epatients interested in participating, please submit an application here. (space is limited - if you want to be sure to attend, we recommend to find a specific sponsor). In addition, we are actively soliciting sponsors for epatients (who will be acknowledged). Moreover, in our registration form, participants can check an option to register for an epatient they know, sponsoring his/her registration fee. (Keynote speaker Epatient Dave (Dave DeBronkart) at Medicine 2.0'09 [with Gunther Eysenbach]) (Epatients at Medicine 2.0'11)
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James Heywood, Co-Founder of PatientslikeMe, at Medicine 2.0'12
We are thrilled to announce that James (Jamie) Heywood, one of the co-founders of Patientslikeme, has confirmed as one of the keynote speakers at Medicine 2.0'12 in Boston. Details to follow.
Posted: 2012-01-31	More...

JMIR Medicine 2.0 papers from Stanford conference
The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), the leading journal in eHealth with an Impact Factor of 4.7, is the official journal of the Medicine 2.0 congress series and workshops/events/summits produced under this brand. Today, JMIR is proud to publish the first full paper based on a presentation at Medicine 2.0'11 in Stanford. It is based on the award winning presentation of Bassam Kadry at Medicine 2.0'11, and can be found as full paper here: Kadry B, Chu LF, Kadry B, Gammas D, Macario A Analysis of 4999 Online Physician Ratings Indicates That Most Patients Give Physicians a Favorable Rating J Med Internet Res 2011;13(4):e95 URL: http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e95/ doi: 10.2196/jmir.1960 The Multimedia Appendix in this paper is a video of his Medicine 2.0 talk, and is also published as Medicine 2.0/JMIR podcast on itunes. Thanks you to all other presenters who have already submitted a full paper of their talk to JMIR or the Medicine 2.0 Proceedings. Over the course of the next months, these papers will appear either in JMIR or in the Medicine 2.0 Proceedings (as Stanford was unable to sponsor a "Theme Issue" this year, these papers will appear within regular JMIR issues as soon as they are accepted). For details on the Medicine 2.0/JMIR partnership see the Call for Papers which was handed out to all presenters at Medicine 2.0'11 in Stanford (our apologies that the CfP did not make it into the program booklet this year). A short reminder for Medicine 2.0'11 presenters: If you want to take advantage of the significant Article Processing Fee discount for Medicine 2.0 presenters, the deadline to submit the full paper to JMIR is within 2 months after the conference, which is November 18th, 2011. Missed the submission deadline for full papers? No problem! Presenters can submit thir full paper to JMIR at any time later after the deadline, but will then not be able to take advantage of the Article Processing Fee discount. Or submit to the Medicine 2.0 Proceedings (within 6 months after the conference, deadline March 18th, 2012).
Posted: 2011-11-16	More...

How to use the QR Codes on the badges
Medicine 2.0 attendees will note QR codes on Medicine 2.0 badges, which contain a URL to the profile page of each participant (or another URL which attendees specified when they registered). Use an iphone/android app like Redlaser to scan he badge of the person you are talking to. We combined this powerful tool with the Medicine 2.0 Social Network, which means not only can you see the profile of the person you are chatting with when you scan the QR code, but that person is also automatically added to your personal profile page as a "user you have met"... Apart from having a nice logbook of who you met at #med2, you can use this to expose your contact information (email address) selectively to people you met or you added as colleagues or friends. Business cards are so out... Let's see who wins the award for making most connections at Medicine 2.0! (Note: When you make a connection for the first time, after scanning the QR code you will have to login so the relationship can be stored. Before the conference starts, make sure you have your username/pw handy - use the "forgot password" option if not. Also, before the congress starts, edit your profile to review/change your privacy preferences - we recommend to show at least your name, affiliation and country publicly to all visitors so you appear on the attendee list, but make your contact information only available to people you connect with. BY DEFAULT, YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS NOT VISIBLE TO YOUR CONNECTIONS, SO MAKE SURE YOU ENABLE THIS SO PEOPLE WHOM YOU BEFRIEND CAN GET IN TOUCH).
Posted: 2011-09-16	More...

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Conference Information

Medicine 2.0® is happy to support and promote other conferences and workshops in this area. Contact us to produce and promote your conference or workshop under this label and in this event series. In addition, we are always looking for hosts of future World Congresses.

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