Reshape 2009: international conference on Health 2.0
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre is at the forefront when it comes to the development of Health 2.0. In cooperation with Acutezorg.nl, Health Valley and Nictiz (the National IT Institute for Healthcare in the Netherlands), UMC St Radboud is due to hold the second edition of the Health 2.0 conference on 12 and 13 October 2009. Reshape 2009.
Health 2.0 will deal with new relations between health care providers and their patients. The new relations result from the many possibilities offered by internet sources - social media in particular - on the one hand, and the growing self-confidence of the patients on the other. The first successful edition of the conference was on March 25 last.
The second edition of the Health 2.0 conference will be concerned with the following three questions:
- What have been the most striking (inter)national developments in Health 2.0?
- How can all these insights and views be applied in the practice of health care institutions?
- What is the role of the social networks in contemporary health care settings, and what role will they play in the future?
The speakers include Lee Aase (Mayo Clinic USA), John Sharp (Cleveland Clinic
USA), Luciano Floridi (University of Hertfordshire UK), Bas Bloem (UMC St
Radboud), Bertalan Mesko (Webicina.com Hungary), Gert-Jan van Boven (Nictiz),
Jan Kremer (MijnZorgnet), Laurent de Vries (GGD Nederland) and initiator Lucien
Engelen (St Radboud UMC). What is going on in the world of Health 2.0? What are
the opportunities and what are the pitfalls? Where do we need to start and how?
The focus will be particularly on the real meaning of Health 2.0, which of
course involves much more than only the internet. The way patients and health
care providers communicate is undergoing dramatic changes. Your wish is our
command? No, that would go too far, although there is undeniably a trend
towards collaborative healthcare. What are the symptoms of this trend? And what
does it mean for health care?
For more information, please visit UMC St. Radboud Ziekenhuis.
