Health 2.0 and the NHS

I'm going to the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco in a couple of weeks. It's a tough job but someone's got to do it! This is the annual jamboree where web-based innovations in health-related social networks and user generated content is profiled.The agenda is here. Over 1000 people are expected.

I'm on the lookout especially  for ideas and potential partners for NHS organisations. I'm particularly keen to try and spot  ways of connecting some of what is being showcased with those ambitious PCTs that are keen to use the net to help remake their relationships with local people, especially in the area of  promoting and sustaining wellbeing and more personalised medicine etc.

After all, in an ageing,  post credit-crunch society, we really need as many people as possible to remain economically active and as productive and creative as possible. Afterall we have plans for those tax receipts!

Let me know if you're going to the conference. Hopefully we can meet and help each other decipher all the gobbledeegook. Also, if you're not going, let me know if you want me to share what I find out with you or your organisation on my return to Blighty.

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