22 - 23 June 2011, Paris, France.Cité Universitaire Internationale, will be the site of a first-time international conference assembling participants from 22 countries. 49 healthcare social media speakers at Doctors 2.0™ & You, will lead the debate on how doctors do and don't use social media, mobile applications, and Web 2.0 tools to connect with patients and colleagues. According to conference organizers, Basil Strategies, the communication of the conference Doctors 2.0™ & You has itself demonstrated the power of social media in connecting with Health Care around the globe. "Our conference Twitter hashtag #doctors20 has reached 20 000 users. Doctors 2.0 & You has 144 000 occurrences on Google, attracting participants from the five continents. The website has been visited from 88 countries!"
The Doctors 2.0 & You event with 20 hours of programming includes an international start-up contest with nine confirmed finalists: Alerte Fièvre (France) a mobile app for the management of fever, Diagnosia (Austria) a website for improved drug information and commentary, DocPons (USA) to make services more affordable for patients, Doctoralia (Sp) to facilitate access to physicians in Europe, Medcrowd (UK) for crowdsourcing amongst physicians, Medico (US) for a new medical search concept, Mesvaccins (Fr) to personalize vaccine recommendations, Words4Health (US) for search profiling, and Withings (Fr) for connected medical objects, as well as a mobile application demo evening with 13 applications.
"Social Media and mobile applications are impacting healthcare, as no one had imagined even last year, whether through the bringing forward of new medical questions, new diagnostic tools, extending the reach of congresses, patient advocacy, and raising ethical issues. Usage is huge," notes Denise Silber, founder of Doctors 2.0 & You and President of Basil Strategies. "Industry-wide advancement cannot take place without incorporating the perspective of healthcare social media and mobile applications. Doctors 2.0 & You will provide an interactive forum to discuss the latest innovation and to better understand doctor and patient expectations."
The Doctors 2.0 & You agenda will shed light on topics such as the new physician-patient relationship, physician activity in online communities, the relation to pharma and government. Interactive exchange among attendees will be facilitated via workshops, panels, posters, exhibits and the MAD (Mobile Application Demo) Party. Speakers include international personalities such as Jacques Lucas (French National Order of Physicians), Jan Geissler (CML Advocates Network), Bertalan Mesko (Webicina), Victor Montori (Mayo Clinic), Lucien Engelen (Radboud REshape Med Center), Gilles Frydman (ACOR), Yossi Baragon (Clalit), Silja Chouquet (WhyDotPharma), John Mack (Pharma Marketing News), Len Starnes (Bayer), Alex Butler (Janssen).
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http://www.doctors20.com
About Doctors 2.0 & You
Doctors 2.0 & You is the first conference of its kind to examine how doctors are using social media, applications and Web 2.0 tools to work with patients, colleagues, governments, industry and payers. The conference draws on the expertise of physicians, patient communities, online and mobile tool providers, hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and governments to help address the role of new technology in healthcare from the doctor's perspective. Doctors 2.0 & You is organized by Denise Silber, president of Basil Strategies in Paris. Silber, who was named to the Legion of Honor, France's highest civil decoration, is a noted expert in Europe and in the US in health- and Web-related business and consulting, and co-organizer of the 2010 Health 2.0 Europe conference. The conference advisory board represents seven nationalities. Please visit http://www.doctors20.com for more information, or follow Doctors 2.0 & You and its online communities and groups on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube.