HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009 is an open forum on Healthcare & the Web, open standards, mobile technologies, social media & process innovation. YOU set the schedule & host the break-out sessions in this Barcamp-style free conference. Bring ideas, make connections.

MARCH 28, 2009 PHILADELPHIA, PA
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HEALTHCAMP is the first gathering of its kind in our area. For one day it will bring together healthcare providers, health industry experts and tech pros to meet informally in presentations, workshops and discussions they host themselves. They’ll share expertise and experience to learn and to inspire innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare and health technology.

If you’re a Health practitioner with a vision to share of how technology can do a better job improving patient care, saving time or making your job easier.	If you’re a Tech pro who wants to swap ideas or cases & learn from others in Health tech & those on the front lines of patient care.

Updates from the HealthCamp Philadelphia Blog:

Who’s Coming: Eugene Borukhovich Unleashes Brainpower for Patient Empowerment

Who are you and what do you do?
Hi! I’m Eugene Borukhovich, and I’m Chief Evangelist for HealthWorldWeb and a big proponent of social media and healthcare consumerism. I think together we have the power to contribute back to our society and once we look back – actually make an impact

Why are you attending HealthCamp Philadelphia?
I am a big believer that people’s minds store pieces of information on the shelves and the real innovations come out when you start pulling these together. Imagine all the brain power in one room, user generated schedules, user generated discussions. Lets pick all the ideas off our shelves and put them all together!!!!!

If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
Patient-generated doctor reviews and their role in the patient community. Negative press it receives and the offsetting benefits it provides.

Tell us one random fact about yourself.
There is nothing random about me – WYSIWYG – I guess that IS a fact!!!

Where can we find you?
HealthWorldWeb.com

Are YOU coming to HealthCamp Phila? Let other campers know so they can find you.

Who’s Coming: Jen McCabe Gorman, Firestarter, Advocate, Connector

Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Jen McCabe Gorman, Chief Patient Advocate for OrganizedWisdom Health, firestarter (don’t ask, bring an extinguisher) at NextHealth (NL), ferocious advocate for bivalve platforms that integrate/translate data for cooperative use by patients and providers..

Why are you attending HealthCamp Philadelphia?
Excellent group lined up for HealthCampPhila (with running updates on Twitter). HealthCamps always seem to be the functional equivalent of liberal arts salons…lots of opinions, toss in some data, stir, and you’ve got a lot of productive sharing going on that usually drives change. Providing some new resource for an individual that they then repopulate within their organizational honeycomb does my heart good.

If you were to lead a session, what would it be about?
Social Media is a channel, people! Not an industry, not a movement. A communications channel. And a great one for connecting patients and providers alike. Let’s take a look at how to channel health content using a condition-specific Twitter case study – the development of @polarwisdom

Tell us one random fact about yourself.
Love cigars, fascinated by ancient Egyptian history, and working on a theory of genetics+anthropology (genoanth) in my ’spare’ time. Oh wait, that’s three. One random fact = usually guilty of overkill .

Where can we find you?
Carpetbagging on Twitter, various health/tech conferences

Are YOU coming to HealthCamp Phila? Let other campers know so they can find you.