Dear Health 2.0 NYC Members,

I apologize for such a delayed recap of the February meetup. But before I go onto the actual recap, I want t thank everyone for contributing ideas for the next meetups and voting on the topics of interest. As Lynn and I always say - it is your group so the influence and feedback we get drives the unprecedented (IMHO) discussionsand the success of our meetup.

Here are the top 3 ideas so please visit the meetup site to add and / or vote

Personal Health and Wellness Management

Social Media in healthcare

Leading Edge technology in healthcare?

Quick Recap

We tried Ustream.tv to extend our meetup virtually - each one will be embedded below individually but you can go to our Heath 2.0 NYC Show page to view them all at once.

Karsten from ZocDoc seems to carry the same passion and enthusiasm as the founder (Cyrus) himself. ZocDoc is going strong with a very recent expansion to the West Coast and are actively hiring (for those who are looking please contact him on Twitter @KarstenV )

Almost 8 months ago, Health 2.0 Meetup hosted an ideation session on "Office Visit Dimensions" to identify the gaps that are seen by consumers as it pertains to their expereinces before, at and after the doctor's visit. 

ZocDoc solves some of these problems and while they have the capacity to expand the feature set, the are treading wisely to focus on what they do best.

Meaningful Use, to Use or not to Use

People say that LinkedIn & Facebook are for people you know, Twitter is for people you want to know....  I started following @paulroemer on twitter and was immediately impressed by his wisdom in the #EHR, #EMR space, so when I asked him to speak on meaningful use and what this means to the healthcare ecosystem he immediately said yes. Paul came all the way from Pennsylvania, where he is a managing director for Healthcare IT Strategy. I am also happy to say that we inspired him and he now has a local Health 2.0 PA Chapter on meetup

Paul is a knowledgeable, dynamic, entertaining presenter that is not afraid to challenge the status qoe and hence we spent almost an hour between his presentation and the Q&A session. I almost felt bad doing a time check.

His slides and the presentations are below and please feel free to contact him if you need him at @paulroemer

 Thank you all again for your participation and see you in a few weeks. Agenda TBD but we will try to get presenters to match the ideas that you all submitted.

Thanks again