Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)

Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC)

November 29, 2010 – November 30, 2010



Teaser Medicine 2.0 '10 Maastricht from UMC St Radboud on Vimeo.



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.

The University of Twente (UT), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will host Medicine 2.0 Europe on November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Medicine 2.0'10 will umbrealla REshape (Fall ed., UMCN) and the 'Supporting health by technology' (IIIrd ed) symposium series (Univ. of Twente, RIVM). Evidently, the focus is on the impact and significance of Web 2.0 on health, health care and research. This incredibly important, prospering and promising field of interest deserves an open and collaborative European forum.















What is Medicine 2.0?

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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.
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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).

Mark your calendar for the forthcoming Medicine 2.0 Fall Conferences: Nov 29/30th, 2010, Maastricht, Europe, and Sep 16-18th, 2011, San Francisco, USA



Photos from Medicine 2.0'09 on Flickr.






(see also Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness [J Med Internet Res 2008;10(3):e22]).


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 the local organizers for ideas and suggestions for Medicine 2.0'10, including proposals for partnerships and sponsorships, keynote speakers, organizing / scientific committee member suggestions.
If you are interested in organizing your own Medicine 2.0 workshop, tutorial or conference, contact the conference series producer, G. Eysenbach geysenba[at]gmail.com




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

 

Medicine 2.0'10 Registration is now open

  
09/July/2010. Registration for Medicine 2.0'10 in Maastricht is now open - note that the early bird registration deadline is July 31st, 2010. The organizers invite participants to bring their partner(s) to the welcome reception free of charge - please select the number of tickets required in the registration form. Also offered is a social program for partners which can be ordered at the time of registration - for more information see Social Program.

To register for Medicine 2.0'10 today, please login, complete your profile information (this is important as this will be used for your badge), and then click Registration to order your tickets and pay online.		  
Posted: 2010-07-09 More...
 

Abstract Submission for Medicine 2.0'10 now open

  
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
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Medicine 2.0’10: 3rd World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research
on November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.


CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
http://bit.ly/dCOIeT

DEADLINE: May 31st, 2010

As of today, abstract submissions for the Medicine 2.0'10 congress in Maastricht are open.


As in previous years, Medicine 2.0'10 will contain a mix of traditional academic/research, practice and business presentations, keynote presentations, and panel discussions to discuss emerging issues. We strive for an interdisciplinary mix of presenters from different countries and disciplines (e.g. health care, social sciences, computer sciences, engineering, business) and with a different angle (research, practice, and business).
Participants are invited to either submit a 500 word abstract to propose a 15 minute single-presenter talk, or can submit a a 500 word panel proposal to present or discuss a topic in a 45-60 min session with 3-4 colleagues from other organizations/institutions.

For details see Call for Abstracts.		  
Posted: 2010-04-16 More...
 

Date & Location for Medicine 2.0'10

  
The Medicine 2.0® conference – in 2008 and 2009 hosted in Toronto – goes global and will in 2010 be organized in Europe. The University of Twente (UT), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will host Medicine 2.0 Europe November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Medicine 2.0® Europe will be supported by the core Medicine 2.0® team in cooperation with scientists from UT, UMCN and RIVM; the website will remain at http://www.medicine20congress.com, and the submission and dissemination process will remain centralized.
Medicine 2.0 Europe will serve as an umbrella for REshape (Fall edition, UMCN) and the ‘Supporting health by technology’ (IIIrd edition) symposium series (University of Twente, RIVM).		  
Posted: 2010-02-16 More...
 

Medicine 2.0'09 Post-Conference News (don't miss 2010/2011!)

  
Medicine 2.0'09 is over and it was a truly outstanding event. Now make sure
you don't miss information on the forthcoming Medicine 2.0'10 and 2.0'11
conferences!

While the buzz and conversations on twitter (#med2) and on the blogosphere
continues (see for example this blog), a few news and updates:

1. Official blog
Each presentation at Medicine 2.0'09 was blogged about on
http://medicine20congress.blogspot.com/
Presenters, please review the blog post and comment on the blogs / add
corrections.
Blogs were written by health informatics students (and we have to grade
them!) - so please give them and us some feedback on the accuracy and
informativeness of the posts.

2. Photos: You can view a slideshow of 2009 photos at
Photos 2009

The photos are also available on FlickR here.

and can be used freely in blog-posts, articles etc (with attribution).

3. Twitter: All tweets with #med2 hashtag have been archived at
http://twapperkeeper.com/med2/

Medicine 2.0'09 provided extra screens to broadcast the twitter stream live
to the conference audience. If you were at the conference, please
participate in the following poll:


Did you like the idea of twitter screens?


4. Slideshare: An event page has been created and we are asking all
presenters to upload their slide-deck here:
Medicine 2.0'09 Event on Slideshare

We will also upload the presentations we have, but this will take a few
weeks.

5. Podcast/itunes: Presentations have been audio and video-recorded, and we
will make them accessible over the course of the next 12 months (we still
want people to go to the Medicine 2.0 congress, so the participants heard it
first...).
An audio-podcast of last years' Medicine 2.0'08 is now available at
Podcast
If you have itunes, enter
http://tinyurl.com/med2itunes
in your browser, and subscribe to the Medicine 2.0 podcast. Please also
enter a podcast rating!

6. We are currently negotiating with two academic groups interesting in
hosting Medicine 2.0 in 2010 and 2011, respectively. These venues - one in
Europe, one in North-America, will excite you!
To stay tuned and to receive updates via email, please login at the Medicine 2.0 site, go to your profile page and mark
the 2010/2011 checkboxes (email notification). IMPORTANT: If you received
updates for the 2009 congress this does not mean you will automatically
receive updates on future conferences. Your 2010/20111 checkboxes must be
switched on (by default they are off)!


Thanks to everybody for making Medicine 2.0'09 such a resounding success.
To stay informed, sign up for the 2010 and 2011 mailing lists by changing your
profile.


Gunther Eysenbach
Chair, Medicine 2.0'09
& Conference Series Producer


"I'd never been to #Med2 Medicine 2.0, but I haven't yet seen a medical
conference with such a constant stream of good stuff" (ePatientDave)		  
Posted: 2009-09-22 More...
 
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