It is just the process that we have to go through anytime you have a Paradigm Shift in a vertical field such as healthcare. A lot of people get into the act to make fast money and they fall by the way side while other get traction and people say, what a genius. Examples, Amazon eBay even Microsoft. IBM had to beg Gates to take the job. The good news is that we learn a lot from others mistakes and false starts.

So keep throwing out the ideas good or bad, and let the markets decide.

Jeff Brandt
motionPHR Personal Health Record for the iPhone
mymedbox – Personal Health Record for the Google Phone

Of course, I could always to proven wrong and it certainly will not be the first time and unlikely to be the last. With that I wish you and your team the best of luck and feel free to contact me if I can be of any assistance.

We would like to thank you for extracting our presentation out of many during the three hour Health 2.0 Accelerator session. The young company you mentioned with the cloud reviews idea was us, http://HealthWorldWeb.com, and we wanted to clarify the assumption by you that we base our business model on this idea. We are not in the doctor rating and review business – it is a commodity.

First and foremost, the goal of our idea is to provide the consumers/patients valid statistical data so they can make an educated decision. Per your commentary (…“statistical argument” makes some sense”) we seem to agree – great!

Secondly, while some companies may charge for the crowdsourced knowledge, there are another 30+ sites that do not, and their business model is based on advertising. We do not force companies to hand over their assets, we offer them the opportunity to show the link to their content. What we are proposing is an open platform that would be valuable to both patients and the physicians and force some players to adjust their proprietary models.

“What Would Google Do?” by Jeff Jarvis covers a lot of the points and has guided our vision around the open platform:

“Publicness is about more than having a web site. It’s about taking actions in public so people can see what you do and react to it, make suggestions, and tell their friends. Living in public today is a matter of enlightened self-interest. You have to be public to be found. Every time you decide not to make something public, you create the risk of a customer not finding you or not trusting you because you’re keeping secrets. Publicness is also an ethic. The more public you are, the easier you can be found, the more opportunities you have.”…..

“Publicness also brings us collective benefits, as should be made clear by now from the aggregated wisdom Google gathers and shares back with us thanks to our public actions: our searches, clicks, links, and creations. Publicness is a community asset. The crowd owns the wisdom of the crowd and to withhold information from that collective knowledge—a link, a restaurant rating, a bit of advice—may be a new definition of antisocial or at least selfish behavior.”

To paraphrase Clay Shirky (sorry Matthew) – “If we were not doing something right we would not have critics”

Looking forward to many more face-to-face discussion at the next event.

People can see our presentation on:

SlideShare
http://www.slideshare.net/EugeneBorukhovich/hwwh2apresentation

Youtube:

Part I – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwiaYmQqhhI
Part 2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJUOzKMywas
Part 3- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdmFcv6eouM

IMHO, anyone who has anything that is growing and thriving would be crazy to label it Health 2.0. Why get a promising project lumped with dreamers, delusionists and snake oil salesmen? Only those who have no fundamentals to rely on would need Health 2.0 label and approval of people like Ellsworth Toohey, I mean Matthew Holt. That’s exactly what “G” is saying.

If anyone thinks “becoming Health 2.0″ and going to these conferences is a path to success, please contact me for some great rates on oceanfront real estate in Las Vegas! LOL.

I think it’s easier to say “Health 2.0″ than to say “consumer-facing technologies that will assist them in better managing their health and/or the health of loved ones.” but we’re pretty much talking about the same things

But you do know that you have to do what Dmitriy says. It’s the law of the Internets…

as for the 4.0 version, that’s Jen McCabe Gorman’s terminology, and much as I love Jen, unenthusiastic is not how I’d describe her!

cheers & I’m enjoying the banter in what I hope people realize is a respectful way, Matthew