Organizers of Doctors 2.0 & You, the must-attend digital health conference, today announced that the overarching theme of the 5th edition will be 'The Markers of Success in Digital Health'. Founder and conference curator, Denise Silber notes that "despite or perhaps because of the proliferation of digital health solutions, we lack a common understanding of success, without which we cannot achieve that success. At our 5th Edition, we will be asking our 60+ speakers, representing all walks of healthcare, to define those markers and how his or her solution fits in to the bigger picture."
The highly-tweeted conference hashtag #doctors20 registers more than 8000 participants around the world to-date.
Key topics in 2015 will include
- artificial intelligence, avatars, cognitive computing, and big data
- connected objects, 3D printing, and augmented reality
- mobile apps, communities, serious games, e-reputation.
Expanded reserve-only Master Classes, will premiere original material from international experts including:
- Building Success into the Design of Digital Health Solutions, Veronica Bluguermann, Anna Kamenskaya, (Living Labs Global -Copenhagen)
- Advanced Healthcare Social Media Strategy, Marie Ennis O'Connor, award-winning blogger, epatient, and social media expert. (Ireland)
- Evaluating 20 Connected Objects, Berci Mesko, MD PhD, medical futurist, founder of Webicina, and one of the world's most connected physicians. (Budapest, Hungary)
- Launching a successful health video channel on social media with Franck Schneider (University Hospitals of Geneva).
Patient speakers on digital health will include Andrea Borondy Kitts (USA) on lung cancer and social media advocacy, Vanessa Carter (South Africa) on facial difference , Seth Ginsberg (US) on rheumatology and clinical trials, Andrew Schorr (US and Spain) on cancers, Alan Thomas (Wales) on rare disease, Margot VanFleteren (Belgium) on diabetes, Christine Bienvenu (Switzerland) on the patient-physician relationship, Michael Seres (UK) on from Crohn's disease to entrepreneurship. Michael Weiss (US) founder of Crohn’s Disease Warrior Patrol will be the video journalist of the 5th edition.
Academic speakers include
- Infectious Disease Specialist, Pr. Didier Pittet (University Hospitals of Geneva) proponent of social media for public health,
- Professor of Health Law, Nicolas Terry (University of Indiana) who will provide his perspective on connected objects and the law,
- Pr. Iris Thiele Isip Tan, endocrinologist and healthcare social media leader (University of the Philippines),
- Pr John Hixson (UCSF and VHA), neurologist examining connected objects in the field of epilepsy,
- Pr. Larry Chu, Anesthesiologist and Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X, for whom "Doctors 2.0 & You is the only event he attends in Europe each year."
Dr Bernadette Keefe (US) will examine how Twitter impacts the future of medical congresses. Industry speakers include Dr Vincent Varlet (Novartis), Thibaud Guymard (Merck Univadis) and more to be announced.
Dr Berci Mesko, ambassador for Doctors 2.0 & You, describes Doctors 2.0 & You as "the most content-rich conference focusing on the digital revolution in medicine and the most useful event to attend".
Doctors 2.0 & You participants benefit from new global partnerships. These include CinderBlocks2 (Flint, Md), Digital Health Live (Dubai). Taking place at the same dates and both patient-inclusive events, CinderBlocks and Doctors 2.0 & You will provide a video connection for participants on June 4th. Digital Health Live (Dubai) will include a Doctors 2.0 & You panel. Stanford Medicine X participants will benefit from discounted entry tickets to "sister conference" Doctors 2.0 & You in Paris..."
For further information, please visit:
http://www.doctors20.com
About Doctors 2.0 & You
Innovative, Insightful, Inspiring, Doctors 2.0 & You is "the must-attend annual digital health conference in Europe". Taking place in Paris, it is the only international congress devoted to the state of the art tools and services linking patients and physicians with all healthcare stakeholders: pharma and device industry, technologists, payers, government. Key topics in 2015 will include artificial intelligence, augmented reality, 3d printing, connected objects as well as mobile apps, communities, serious games. The hashtag #doctors20 is the most tweeted in its category, with more than 8000 participants to-date.