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What is HealthCampPhila (this is from their website) "HealthCamp is a new kind of healthcare conference, an “un-conference”, where participants make the agenda.
HealthCamp is about putting Web technologies, open standards, mobile and social media, and process innovation to work for better healthcare and health technology. It brings health providers, health industry experts and technology professionals together for one day to exchange ideas informally, locally, openly. Participants themselves provide the content, with break-out sessions they develop themselves and plug into a schedule grid the day of the event. Anyone can present and host a session in nearly any format." First Impression I am not ashamed to admit that HealthCampPhilly was my first experience at an un-conference. What an experience! By the time I got there at 9 half the board was already filled with topics and panels ranging from healthcare consumerism to "what is twitter". People's desire to contribute to the conversation, their passion and their politeness around issues they disagreed on shocked me (positively). 
10Spot - Evolving Role of Consumerism in Health Care
What is Healthcare Consumerism The first discussion that I joined was lead by Rich Toner. While we were waiting for few more people to join, I posed a question to the group on what that term means... Here are some quick twitters on the subject. @EdBennett: question from audience - isn't consumerism in healthcare an oxymoron? @ ekivemark: #HCPHL "Consumerism - "Don't touch my benefits" . Just need to get consumers thinking more about HC Good discussion on Doctor Reviews
We had a great discussion on Doctor review which for some unknown reason (smirk smirk) does not get old. I do believe that the review system today is broken given the complete data segregation across 30 plus sites and hence the 17 good reviews on 17 different sites do not hold any ground against one negative review on 1 (one) site. I threw out a concept of crowdsourced reviews in the cloud using a newly designed standard that we are proposing @ HelathWorldWeb - CGQR (care giver quality record). This standard's goal should be to develop a schema (not in a vacuum but with help of the industry) and either centralize it or have a P2P model. It should be updatable and retrievable via an API by all doctor review sites in essence creating a cloud computing model for quality records. This in my mind actually helps the patient, protects the doctors and ultimately benefits both parties by stopping ridiculous movement such as the one from Medical Justice. We are hoping to present the concepts and some basic operational models at the Health 2.0 pre-conference. So please stay tuned! Oh... and Google Health - please step up here as the cloud provider :) !!! @ekivemark: #HCPHL Healthgrades.com Physicianreports, ratemd for rating reports. popping up everywhere @jenmccabegorman: #HCPHL - presenter "what do people think about rating docs?" former social worker "double edged sword - treatments go wrong" @ADVANCEforIRT: How do you feel about rating or comparing physicians on websites? Some docs demand gag orders. Sign away freedom of speech? @EdBennett: What are consumers rating about doctors? skill or personality? The hospital food? #hcphl @ekivemark: #HCPHL are Doctor's Patient Gag Orders counter to engaging consumers. @eiobri: Interesting conversation around rating doctors? Patients qualified to judge? Are they measuring right things? Consolidated ratings? #HCPhl @EdBennett: Rating docs is not new, word of mouth has always been important. The web just makes it visible #hcphl @jenmccabegorman: #HCPHL - "need to come up with different terminology" for rating docs/healthcare delivery -"no gag orders from hotels on ratings" @GastroDoctor: A problem I see with patients rating docs is it could be used as an inappopriate "outlet" to vent on a bad outcome #HCPHL @EdBennett: What if the AMA started a doctor review site? - Everyone is laughing :) #hcphl @ekivemark: #HCPHL Ratings are data and not information. We need context to turn data in to valuable information Well enough of that!!!
11spot - Quick and Easy Health Care Access with Twitter The next panel was around use of Twitter in the medical industry. Use of twitter-like technologies in the hospitals, EMR's etc came up. Some concerns around patient privacy were explored. In my opinion, you as the patient, should be able to choose what to publish publicly and what to censor from the community. hmm private Twitter community to track your health @ekivemark: #HCPHL Can we use claim data and other clinical data to infer quality from the "Actions of the crowd" rather than the "wisdom of the crowd" @HealthPointPA: session leader is right in that twitter will ultimately change the way people think about privacy #HCPHL @flipgonzo: "Twitter has value in the clinical setting" #hcphl access with Twitter @HealthPointPA: Some say they wouldn't mind if personal health info was microshared since more ppl could contribute to helping their illness/problem #HCPHL (that was me - I think) @ekivemark: #hcphl Its the principles of twitter and the simplicity that shows us the future. 12spot - Social Media - Don't Be Scared! A Twitter Case Study @polarwisdom Jen McCabe Gorman presented @polarwisdom and how they are using social media specifically twitter in innovative ways. See the video which was taped by Dan Kogan from HealthWorldWeb After hours spot Unfortunately I had to miss the rest of the day's agenda and the drinks afterwards! Catch you all on the next one. I am really considering doing HealthCampNYC in the summertime so if anybody is interested to volunteer please contact me at eugene @ nyhto.org |
