Medicine 2.0 Conference Participation Call

The 2012 Medicine 2.0 conference will be held in Boston at Harvard Medical School. 

If you are doing research on any of the following:

  • Blogs and Twitter in Health
  • Building virtual communities and social networking applications for health professionals
  • Building virtual communities and social networking applications for patients and consumers
  • Business models in a Web 2.0 environment
  • Science 2.0, collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication, publishing and peer review
  • Consumer empowerment, patient-physician relationship, and sociotechnical issues
  • Ethical & legal issues, confidentiality and privacy
  • Health information on the web: Supply and Demand
  • Innovative RSS/XML applications and Mashups
  • Personal health records and Patient portals
  • Public (e-)health, population health technologies, surveillance
  • Digital Disease Detection and Biosurveillance using Twitter and other social media/mhealth/Internet sources
  • The Quantified Self: tracking behavior and health
  • Search, Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Technologies
  • Semantic Web (“Web 3.0”) applications
  • Go to website for more topics

You can present in one of six ways:

  • Poster Presentation
  • Oral Presentation
  • Panel Discussion
  • Gadget Exhibition & Demos: Tabletop Rental
  • Rapid Fire Presentations
  • Pitch for Medicine 2.0 Start-up Academy: From idea to company

The cost to attend the meeting is a cheaper than last year, but it would be best to try and get an early bird discount at $250 (first 50 to register get this discount).  Go to Medicine 2.0 Call for Abstracts to get more information on guidelines and other information.