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This page was started to create a community of interested and interesting Health 2.0 people. Also note the Health 2.0 Group on Facebook.


Please do your best to keep these in alphabetical order and follow the convention of:
  • Last Name, First Name, Organization. Description of your activities and interests.


  • Abrams, Larry, Health Care Economist at (Nu-Retail) I am an economist with extensive writings on PBM and drugstore business models. I have recently begun a series of papers on the Future of Consumer-Directed Pharmacy Benefits that argue that pharmacy benefits presents the best opportunities for new healthcare intermediaries (Health 2.0 companies) to outperform traditional managed care entities.
  • Andry, Francois, Software Architect at ICW America I have a background on both information-technology and biology. I am interested in solving problems and offering solutions for the patients and health care providers, exploring new paradigms and technologies. Accessibility, user interface, usability, NLP and knowledge representation are some of my specific areas of interest.
  • Atkinson, Benjamin I'm working on a project to "crowd-source" medical treatments. It's a web platform to enable physicians to build, distribute and collect feedback on treatment protocol. Taking a cue from John Wennberg, I believe that unwarranted treatment variation is the result of the medical free-agent model. I hope to build a tool to facilitate the use of physician extenders and enable dialog and innovation. Comments and suggestions are welcome!
  • Blakey, Adrian I work in Health Care IT. I previously held various senior engineering positions in Silicon Valley start-ups and "dot coms." When I started in IT I thought I'd last 6 months I now think I have found my life's work. I strive daily to try and make a sleeping giant wake up to the reality of Health 2.0.
  • Bonis, Julio. I am a MD, family doctor and specialized in biomedical informatics (with special interest in text mining). Consultant and lecturer on innovation in medicine and e-Health. I run keyose.com the first anonymous Personal Health Record.
  • Bookey, Miriam I work at Xoova, a company devoted to delivering actionability on all the information available on the Web. Patients can research conditions and treatments on the Internet, but the payoff is usually "see your doctor." We're the "see your doctor" part of the equation, with rich profiles detailing the clinical expertise and special interest of tens of thousands of doctors nationwide. And the 2.0 part of it all is that doctors can enhance their own profiles with detailed information about their practices, insurance accepted, photos, forms, even online appointment scheduling. On the flip side, patients will soon be able to provide referrals and testimonials about their doctors. You can read my blog here.
  • Cafer, Jason, MD. Founded Iconic Health, a start-up entering the Health 2.0 market with HomePsych, a portal for online video telepsych, with scheduling, billing for psychiatrists and therapists. The system includes patient controlled mental health records. We are integrating Medication IconoGraphs into the system for display of an enhanced medication list to speed assimilation by the doctor and reduce medical errors. We are also working on a novel decision support framework for psychiatrists. We are interested in applying our solutions to other medical specialties. Areas of personal interest: usability, physician's user interface, Google Health, medical data visualization, online videoconferencing.
  • Chiu, Dave, (Fresh Start). I'm an interaction designer interested in sustainability, health, and the design of services. The Fresh Start service helps to catalyze and support changes in how people relate to food through a unique, technology-based approach involving routine, accountability, education, and community.
  • Coffield, Bob, (Flaherty, Sensabaugh and Bonasso, PLLC). The author of Health Care Law Blog focusing on a variety of health care industry legal and regulatory topics (and anything else of interest). I spend time thinking about and working with clients on the application of technology to the practice of law and medicine, the evolution and adoption of electronic medical record systems, regulatory issues the impact electronic health records will have on litigation, etc. I'm especially interested in the interplay between blogging, Health 2.0 and collaborative health care and its impact on privacy issues.
  • Collet, Bart, Owner/Manager/Consultant in elderly care, Owner of a Belgian internet platform for online interaction between elderly care organisations named Zorgbeheer. Joined Health2.0, primarily for personal focus on how to implement Open Source Software in Healthcare.
  • Dean, Steven, (G51 Studio). I am an independent consultant working with healthcare companies on new product development for the Web. My focus is on user experience design of Web-based products relating to wellness programs, health assessments, incentive solutions, and disease management.
  • Dewke, Ed, FlakeHQ.com is a Psoriasis Community founded in 1996. About 50% of the content is written by email correspondents. In addition to correspondence, the site features articles, creative writing, an hilarious "Don't Say This" page, interviews with shakers and movers within the psoriasis community, and a comprehensive archives.
  • Drayer, Jay, CareFlash is a free framework for "developing community" around pregnancy and neonatal issues, as well as hundreds of chronic illnesses, letting people establish private online communities around a loved one for updates, communications and well-wishes and to engage involvement where help is needed. Driven by the disorders that underlie each community, we deliver world-class 3-D animations that explain not only the disorder at hand but associated topics including surgeries, therapies and anatomy, narrated in plain English, Spanish and Arabic and encompass hundreds of topics ranging from pregnancy and neonatal issues to cancer, cardiovascular, ears/eyes, neurological, genetic, bladder/kidney, digestive/mouth, endocrine, blood/immune, respiratory, orthopedic, skin/cosmetic and others. The experience that provided Jay the notion that there was a need for CareFlash surrounded a two month stay that his father-in-law experienced in an ICU ward - the first time that he had been in the circumstance of being a caretaker to someone dealing with chronic challenges. The experience that gave Jay the motivation to develop CareFlash surrounded the 9/11 tragedies where Jay witnessed the second plane's impact on the WTC as he was headed to a 9am meeting on Wall St., exiting the subway in time to witness the incident.
  • Ernst, Johannes, (NetMesh). At NetMesh, we've been developing some user-centric identity and web 2.0 software applicable to Health 2.0 problems. We operate this wiki and mailing list to give the community a "place" from where it can grow.
  • Everett, Chuck. Founder of several companies (Health Care Foundation of Western Massachusetts, HealthGuard, California Preferred Providers, 456 World) focused on organization, financing and delivery of health care. Currently working as an industry consultant to health technology, medical and pharmaceutical startups. Personal interest in marketplace solutions to organize care and control costs, relying on information transparency. I am attending Health 2.0 representing myself and hoping to meet others committed to reforming the process of care.
  • Gershater, Jonathan, (Sun). At Sun I work in Identity software deployments and I am very interested in Identity and Healthcare. For the purposes of health20 I represent myself and not my employer!
  • Goel, Vijay M.D. and former consultant in McKinsey & Co's healthcare practice. I focused on consumerism and its implications with the big insurers and banks while at McKinsey, with a recent focus on transparency and its implications. I'm starting a company (Health Shoppr, Inc.) who's purpose is to enable consumers to differentiate healthcare providers on the basis of training, services, customer experience, availability, and price. Overall, I hope to give providers additional visibility and revenue for providing great service and better models of practice, including the incorporation of electronic records and communication.
  • Grohol, John, (Psych Central) For the past 12 years, I'm a psychologist who's been publishing mental health information and advocating for ordinary people to become a part of the conversation through blogs, photo sharing, a support community and similar types of tools on our site. World of Psychology, our blog, began in 1999 and was one of the first to be blogging about mental health issues. I was also a part of the e-Patient Scholars Working Group -- the late Tom Ferguson group -- that recently published the e-Patients White Paper under a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant. This paper is a must-read for anyone interested in this area of patient-centered healthcare.
  • Grider, James, The Larvol Group. I am the Manager of Business Development at TLG. We provide quality resources to Health 2.0 companies through our team of MD's/PhD's. Our team helps boost patient involvement through responding to patient queries, involvement in online communities, and creating relevant news pages for various indications and more. I am interested in creating a dialogue with any Health 2.0 company about how we can benefit you.
  • Hall, Matt (Wellness Professionals) I am the CEO of Wellness Professionals, based in Cambridge, MA. We improve outcomes in chronic conditions with a technology-driven Medical Home approach. We are focused first on musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions (eg, back pain, carpal tunnel, arthritis, generalized pain, etc.) because of their prevalence and unmet need. We offer patient direct content and behavioral tools as well as the Health Gateway, a patient/provider treatment management web-based tool.
  • Hallman, Linda (National Alliance for Health Information Technology) Vice President of External and Member Relations; Policy and Government Strategy - Washington, D.C. office. The Alliance is a non-profit, member-based organization focused on how healthcare information technology can and will improve healthcare outcomes. Founded in 2002, the Alliance is a unique forum in which senior healthcare leaders convene, speaking candidly about emerging issues in healthcare and working collaboratively to create consensus-based solutions and action plans.
  • Henry, Neil: Neil Henry is career product manager in a product categories ranging from modems, routers and other data comm devices; large web-based software applications, blue-tooth-enabled medical devices, Point-of-Care scanning & wireless systems. I normally have 3-4 projects in play. I am currently working on a project with some researchers from UVA trying to fing commercial access to automobile dashboards through a bluetooth interface (for a continuous glucose monitor).
  • Hernandez, Manny I am the founder of TuDiabetes.com, a social network for people touched by diabetes that runs on the Ning.com platform. I am a Web Product Manager and Content Strategist, with over 10 years of experience and with a solid stronghold in Social Networks and Blogging. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in late 2002.
  • Holt, Matthew (The Health Care Blog) I'm a long time observer of health IT and the Internet, was an executive at a PHR company in the Health 1.0 days, and now run The Health Care Blog, which features the Health 2.0 movement often, and has had several interviews with leading players in the movement. I also consult with many companies including several that are within the Health 2.0 sphere. And I co-founded (with Indu Subaiya and lots of support from many others) the Health2.0-User Generated Healthcare Conference. First one was held in San Francisco on September 20th, 2007 and attracted 500 people. The next one is the Second Anuual Health 2.0--User-Generated Healthcare conference in San Francisco on October 22-3. 2008. There is also a Health 2.0 Blog to which anyone is invited to contribute, and a Health 2.0 User Generated Media page.
  • Hoogerland, Michael. I am responsible for defining web strategy for Spectrum Health System, a large, integrated health care delivery system in Western Michigan. My interest in Health 2.0 comes from what I believe to be the value it will deliver to patients and providers in enhancing the delivery of care.
  • Hulst, Martijn, (Twynstra Gudde). At Twynstra Gudde, a dutch consultancy company, I'm health2.0-expert. I advise healthcare organisations about their interactive marketingstrategy and how they can use Health2.0-concepts in their business. With others I co-created a dutch medical search engine Medigo.
  • SMTP:Harvey.W.Kaufman@questdiagnostics.com (Harvey W. Kaufman)]. Quest Diagnostics is the international leader in clinical laboratory testing, information, amd services. I'm involved in health 2.0 initiatives because of its impact in engaging patients, physicians, and other parties in healthcare in improving healthcare and its efficient delivery. I currently serve as Medical Director, International, Quest Diagnostics.
  • Kibbe MD MBA, David C. I'm a family physician and co-developer of the Continuity of Care Record, CCR, standard. I'm a senior advisor to the American Academy of Family Physicians as well as an independent consultant for interoperability solutions.
  • King, Dave (Stanford GSB). I worked for an early-stage VC firm in the Valley focused on healthcare and web 2.0 applications and on the healthcare investment banking team for Piper Jaffray. I am currently a second-year MBA student at the Stanford GSB and have a strong conviction about the need for consumer empowerment, information transparency and cross-functional collaboration.
  • King, Jaz-Michael Take a Web community guy from before The Bubble, throw in half a pound of health care transparency, a tablespoon of open source software development and the fervent belief that information wants to be free and eventually I'll figure out something useful. Currently mulling a user-driven hospital rating system and a quality report card that lets hospitals upload their own data. In the meantime, I run a quality improvement community and I make Web 1.5 quality/cost report cards.
  • Littlejohn, James, (mepath.com). We are pursing a vision we call 'lifestyle linking health' and our service is all about, Empowering Individuals to Practice Prevention and Make Money.
  • Lakeman, Sally, I work for an online health Network in a Health Department in Australia. I was lucky enough to begin working for a Population Health Division with great vision. My role is to manage delivery of online health initiatives utilizing current technologies for community and ambulatory care needs. I am a health 2.0 entrepreneur and very passionate about developing real solutions to help people.
  • Lai, Eric, (WhoIsSick.Org). I work for WhoIsSick.Org, an innovative health 2.0 company with a mission to provide current and local sickness information to the public - without the hassle of dealing with hospitals or doctors. With a strong belief in the power of people and a faith that user generated content can be extremely valuable.
  • LaMontagne, Christina: Harvard Business School. I am interested in young companies tapping Health 2.0 technologies as well as those providing health care services or consumer-oriented health and wellness products. With several years' experience working in China, I am also keenly interested in entrepreneurship in China and other emerging markets.
  • LaSalle, Tom: Oracle Healthcare. / tom.lasalle@oracle.com I am a technology sales manager in Oracle's Healthcare practice in Ohio. I joined Oracle specifically to get into the Healthcare information technology space. I am closely following the adoption rate and challenges with implementing electronic health records and the analytics involved in leveraging this new data to both improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.
  • Marston, Alfred I'm a 15 year Type-1 Diabetic with a background in web design and network engineering as well as fanatic web technology enthusiast. I'm the founder of SugarStats.com, a web 2.0 application meant for simple blood sugar tracking and online diabetes management. We started in April 2006 and launched to the public June 2007. SugarStats was built for the everyday, web-savvy diabetic and focuses on simplicity and ease of use rather than complex data-sets and complicated graphs. Very user focused and driven, built for the individual diabetic though we are working on a version for health-care professionals, clinics and HMO's. Besides simplicity our goal is to make it easy and provide multiple ways of simple input (Web, Mobile Phones, Email etc) along with integration with major social networks (Twitter.com, Facebook, MySpace etc).
  • Meskó, Bertalan, (Scienceroll.com). I'm a Hungarian medical student and a medical blogger posting mostly about medicine 2.0. I've talked about the medical features/tools of web 2.0 in several departments and clinics at my university. Here is my slideshow about all the important parts of medicine 2.0.
  • McGloin, Tommy Tommy McGloin is CEO of Xoova, which he founded in 2006 as DoctorsDirect.com. His vision is to empower regular people with information and tools that improve their access to care, while providing the venue for doctors to reach out to patients seeking treatment. Tommy led MapQuest and Moviefone during his ten years at AOL, and aims to translate his experience developing brands that are synonymous with "helpful" to the Xoova brand.
  • Nicholson, Daren. I'm an independent consultant in the medical informatics field. My main focus is on personal health records. Previously, I studied the quality of the health-related content on Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to seeing this Health 2.0 concept blossom.
  • Phillips, Mark I'm a healthcare technologist looking at emerging technologies that will have a game changing impact on healthcare from a number of perspectives including healthcare organizations, providers and consumers. Health 2.0 offers a wealth of both tantalizing and intriguing prospects to leverage collaboration and collective intelligence.
  • Pullen, Lara, PhD Healing ThresholdsI am the CEO and founder of a content-rich site dedicated to informing parents, therapists, physicians, and teachers about the latest information on autism therapies. My training is as a research scientist and I have ten years of experience as a medical writer. Healing Thresholds was created to provide a shared language for stakeholders in the autism community, so that they can put aside differences in idealogy and focus on optimizing a treatment plan for the child.
  • Rayner, Nicholas : Nicholas is a Junior Medical Officer Manager (JMO) with the Hunter New England Area Health Service in NSW, Australia. With 4 years of JMO Management experience, Web Design and Programming experience, Nicholas brings a new perspective to Medical Administration. Nicholas is currently working on some Health 2.0 projects including JMOPortal.com.
  • Sechrest, Randale C., MD (Medical Multimedia Group, LLC): I am an orthpaedic surgeon, longstanding Internet and computer geek, CEO of MMG, LLC, Medical Director of the Montana Spine and Pain Center, refugee of Health 1.0 and survivor of the great Internet meltdown of 2002. Never one to take life's lessons too seriously, I'm ready to ride the new developing bubble that is Health 2.0!
  • Sicre, Alex I am the Director of Corporate Development for Intelecare, a healthcare technology company focused on enhancing patient medical adherence with our proprietary messaging platform that sends patient and caregiver created medical reminders via email, text and voice messaging. We employ the platform on our own website and license our technology to industry as a hosted or enterprise adherence solution. I also write a blog about medication non-adherence and my thoughts about the healthcare industry.
  • Shreeve, Scott, MD (Crossover Healthcare): I am a board certified emergency medicine physician with a primary professional interest in the convergence of medicine, technology, and business. For me, healthcare information technology is the nexus of these diverse interests. My professional objectives are to design, develop, and distribution of healthcare technologies that enhance patient safety, increase clinical efficiency, and improve overall quality of care (ie, Revolutionize Global Healthcare!).
  • Snyder, Dan : I am the Director of Marketing at PCM and in 2002 our online pharmacy KwikMed became an authorized Internet pharmacy in Utah after the state's professional licensing division created an administrative rule allowing doctors to prescribe drugs to patients in Utah based on our proprietary online assesment and diagnostic tool. We became the first, and only, business to sign a consent agreement to provide drugs this way. In Q1 of 2008 we will be providing online laboratory services.
  • Stoakes, Unity, (OrganizedWisdom.com). OrganizedWisdom® is the first human-powered, doctor-guided search service for health. The company, founded by Internet entrepreneurs Steven Krein and Unity Stoakes, is based in New York City. OrganizedWisdom helped ignite the Health 2.0 revolution with the launch of the first health-focused social network and became the first company to set out to use a team of health guides and doctor-reviewers to organize the world’s best health wisdom across the Web. Today, OrganizedWisdom continues to bring innovation to the healthcare space by leveraging social media and the power of collaboration to improve the quality of health search.
  • Serrano, Manuel, Director Expert Patient Programme in Spain [1] and President of the Education, Health and Society Foundation. We are setting a network of self management support expert teams [2] to start delivering services through the web for patients and professionals worldwide. We count with an advisory board of 30 members coming from 20 countries. (January 2008)
  • Silber, Denise, Basil Strategies, [3] [4]. American eHealth consultant based in Paris, France, founder of e-health/e-marketing partner company network. Author of "Case for eHealth." Co-founder of Internet Healthcare Coalition: long-standing involvement in "quality of medical web sites", promotion of physician/consumer dialogue through the web, strategic partner of Health on the Net. Recently introduced online platform for CME discussion amongst French doctors.
  • Sockel, David (Connecture)  : Former healthcare consultant who helped start 2 innovative healthcare technology companies (SimplyHealth and Connecture) which focused on more efficient health insurance sales and service. Now exploring how new technologies can drive radical transformation in the industry. Based in Atlanta, GA USA
  • Susheel Oommen John : Susheel is a physician ( MD Internal Medicine) with special interest in health and clinical informatics, based in India the hub of Information technology, he works with a network of committed technology geeks to leverage technology for making a difference in the lives of people particulary in the lives of the poor who have little access to it.
  • Tenderich, Amy (DiabetesMine.com) I'm a journalist, author, and healthcare blogger at www.diabetesmine.com, which is now considered one of the leading diabetes & health blogs in the country. I'm also an active patient advocate, with many years' experience in IT industry communications. Thus my keen interest in Health 2.0 technologies.
  • Toth, Ben I'm a health information specialist, interested in, and working in the area of Health 2.0
  • O'Grady, Laura I'm a post doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Information Studies. My research focuses on the use of technology in patient education. I'm currently investigating decision making, information sources and breast cancer. I've been an advocate of collaborative learning theories and was involved early on in peer-to-peer networks in health care. I'm looking forward to the impact of social software on patient education.
  • Schultz, Jason I'm a health care advocate in the health 2.0 space very interested in, and using my (non-profit) social networking huspital and web 2.0 technologies to revolutionize healthcare.
  • Barakat El, Hassan, (Inotive) At Inotive, we are developing Health concepts to help people navigate throughout the health domain. Very much like car navigation, we provide tools that instruct people to take those decisions to arrive at the "health-coordinate" they want.
  • Waegemann, C. Peter, CEO of . As CEO of Medical Records Insitute. I have been promoting electronic health records for more than 25 years. As father of ISO TC 215 on health Informatics, former Chair of ANSI HISB and ASTM E31, CORBAmed, and many other healthcare informatics standards organizations, my work has put me often at the center of health informatics developments. I was Chair of the Standards Committee for Personal/Consumer health Records and have been speaking for years about the third development (Chinese Medicine being the first, Western Medicine being the second), I have been calling it Personal Health Information Management. Whether it is called patient-centered, or health 2.0, or something else doesn't matter. Our Institute intends to focus on these issues at the TEPR 2008 conference to be held in May 2008.
  • Underwood, Dennis, (Curbside.MD) At Praxeon we believe that access to the best health information is key to all those with a vested interest in quality health care. For physicians it's critical to provide the best possible treatment for patients and accessing the latest and best medical evidence is essential. Patients are hungry for information for themselves and their families but it needs to be personalized to their conditions and treatments. We provide the single best resource for accessing the best medical information that is personalized to your needs. Read our Blog for real health cases and more information about Praxeon.
  • Underhill, Phillip, I am VP of Strategy & Planning at Saatchi & Saatchi Health + Wellness in New York City. My expertise is in consumer healthcare marketing, audience research and strategic planning. I am currently developing Health 2.0 strategies and tactics for major pharmaceutical firms.
  • Modzelewski, F. Mark, I am Managing DIrector of Bang Ventures, a Cambridge, MA.-based early stage venture fund. I will be soon joining a stealth health 2.0 start-up as CEO. I previously co-founded a few ventures including Lux Research, New Europe Ventures, the NanoBusiness Alliance and the Benet Group and was an exec or advisor to a bunch of other start-ups. My family life has exposed me to the best and the worst of the health care sector. I am looking to drive change as best I can in the sector.
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