Last week in San Francisco, we announced that the next IxCenter conference will be a joint venture with Health 2.0, LLC. After two years of interesting and lively dialog, we realized it is the perfect time to further investigate the intersection of the Ix and Health 2.0 movements. Matthew Holt, Indu Subaiya, and all of our colleagues are all looking forward to pulling together one great conference to explore the synergies of these two transformational movements in health care.

Visions for reinventing health care around these two patient-centered approaches to care delivery will address participatory medicine and the public policy needed to support it. The theme: “The Great Debates on the Next Generation of U.S. Healthcare.” Some of these great debates—moderated in part by Susan Dentzer (Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs, and former head of health team for PBS’s NewsHour)—will include:

• Health 2.0 & Ix vs. traditional health care
• Knowledge creation: Expert vs. Wiki
• Navigating the health care system: Human info-mediaries vs. automation & algorithms (or some combination?)
• How do you build Health 2.0 into the delivery system?
• What is the future role of the doctor?

The conference will be held on April 22 and 23, 2009 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel.  You can register at this week’s special early-bird rates for Health 2.0 attendees and IxAction members to get an extra $200 off the early-bird rate, but you need to sign up by midnight on Halloween (October 31)…BOO!

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