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Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)
MARS Centre
Toronto, CA
September 3, 2008 – September 4, 2008
Medicine 2.0 is a new conference series on Web 2.0 application in health, medicine, and biomedical research, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, the International Medical Informatics Association, and CHIRAD.
Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)
MaRS Centre (Toronto, Canada)
101 College Street,
Toronto, ON, M5G 1L7
Toronto, CA
September 17, 2009 – September 18, 2009
Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.
The congress is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.
This conference distinguishes itself from "Health 2.0" tradeshows by having an academic form and focus, with an open call for presentations, published proceedings and peer-reviewed abstracts (although there is also a non-peer reviewed practice and business track), and being the only conference in this field which has a global perspective and an international audience (last year there were participants from 18 countries).
An academic approach to the topic also means that we aim to look "beyond the health 2.0 hype", trying to identify the evidence on what works and what doesn't, and have open and honest discussions.
Medicine 2.0 '08 and '09 sold out with almost 200 participants each, and were praised to have an outstanding program, with internationally renowned speakers, a philosophy of "openess", and a very conducive atmosphere for discussions and networking.
What is Medicine 2.0?
 | Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies as well as semantic web and virtual reality tools, to enable and facilitate specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between these user groups. |  |
To pre-register for future Medicine 2.0 conferences (Medicine 2.0'10 and Medicine 2.0'11 will be hosted in different cities/countries/continents), please preregister or create an account with this site (if you have an account, go to your profile page and mark the 2010/2011 checkboxes).
Photos from Medicine 2.0'09 on Flickr.
Who should attend?
- Academics (health professionals, social scientists, computer scientists, engineers)
- Software and Web 2.0 application developers
- Consultants, vendors, venture capitalists, business leaders, CIOs
- End-users (health professionals, consumers, payors)
What participants at Medicine 2.0'08 said (quotes from our evaluation forms):
- "broad audience... this was by far the most diverse and far reaching audience that I have seen in the past 5 years"
- "this was an extremely stimulating conference"
- "very comprehensive range of topics and presenters"
- "a truly fantastic event!"
- "This was an exceptional event populated by an amazing breadth of researchers, bloggers, academics, companies, and global health crusaders.
Often at health conferences you see the same speakers and firms over and over, rehashing the same demos or Powerpoints. Not in Toronto.
Conversations exceeded all expectations, and the collegial feel encouraged open debate among participants." - "I loved how everyone was actively participating - laptops being used to engage in the current presentation by tweeting, accessing a mentioned site, blogging etc."
- "round tables in the main auditorium facilitated networking nicely"
- "I loved the diversity of the attendees"
- "rich debate following each presentation"
- "very high level of presentations"
- "I learned so much! Where do I start?"
- "state of art in the field"
- "thanks for putting all of this conference together and doing so in an opensource style! (...) It was truly amazing how willing people were to share their true concerns and most forward-thinking ideas within this atmosphere."
Please contact us for ideas and suggestions for Medicine 2.0'09 (Sept 2009), including proposals for partnerships and sponsorships, keynote speakers, organizing / scientific committee member suggestions.
Aggregated RSS of all relevant Medicine 2.0 Congress feedsThe Medicine 2.0 Aggregator is a little tool developed using Y! Pipes that aggregates feeds from various social media applications (Twitter, Crowdvine, FlickR, Slideshare, and others), recognizing the Medicine 2.0 Congress tags (medicine20, or #med2 in Twitter), and spitting out an aggregate RSS feed. We will even try something revolutionary this year: We'll feed titles of submitted abstracts and conference registrants into the data stream, in real time, as they are submitted. So grab the RSS feed above and stick it into your iGoogle homepage, your blog, on your website, etc.
Medicine 2.0'10 (Maastricht, NL)
Maastricht Exhibition & Congress Centre (MECC)
Maastricht, NL
November 29, 2010 – November 30, 2010
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Teaser Medicine 2.0 '10 Maastricht from UMC St Radboud on Vimeo.
Download here the Programme.
For registered participants: download here the General Information. with information on opening times registration desk, route description, etc.
Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.
The congress is organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International Medical Informatics Association, the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, CHIRAD, and a number of other sponsoring organizations.
This conference distinguishes itself from "Health 2.0" tradeshows by having an academic form and focus, with an open call for presentations, published proceedings and peer-reviewed abstracts (although there is also a non-peer reviewed practice and business track), and being the only conference in this field which has a global perspective and an international audience (last year there were participants from 18 countries).
An academic approach to the topic also means that we aim to look "beyond the health 2.0 hype", trying to identify the evidence on what works and what doesn't, and have open and honest discussions.
Medicine 2.0 '08 and '09 sold out with almost 200 participants each, and were praised to have an outstanding program, with internationally renowned speakers, a philosophy of "openess", and a very conducive atmosphere for discussions and networking.
The University of Twente (UT), the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (UMCN) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) will host Medicine 2.0 Europe on November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Medicine 2.0'10 will umbrealla REshape (Fall ed., UMCN) and the 'Supporting health by technology' (IIIrd ed) symposium series (Univ. of Twente, RIVM). Evidently, the focus is on the impact and significance of Web 2.0 on health, health care and research. This incredibly important, prospering and promising field of interest deserves an open and collaborative European forum.
Silver Sponsors Medicine 2.0'10
What is Medicine 2.0?
| | Medicine 2.0 applications, services and tools are Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies as well as semantic web and virtual reality tools, to enable and facilitate specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between these user groups. | |
To pre-register for future Medicine 2.0 conferences (Medicine 2.0'10 and Medicine 2.0'11 will be hosted in different cities/countries/continents), please preregister or create an account with this site (if you have an account, go to your profile page and mark the 2010/2011 checkboxes).
Mark your calendar for the forthcoming Medicine 2.0 Fall Conferences: Nov 29/30th, 2010, Maastricht, Europe, and Sep 16-18th, 2011, San Francisco, USA
Photos from Medicine 2.0'09 on Flickr.
Who should attend?
- Academics (health professionals, social scientists, computer scientists, engineers)
- Software and Web 2.0 application developers
- Consultants, vendors, venture capitalists, business leaders, CIOs
- End-users (health professionals, consumers, payors)
What participants at Medicine 2.0'08 said (quotes from our evaluation forms):
- "broad audience... this was by far the most diverse and far reaching audience that I have seen in the past 5 years"
- "this was an extremely stimulating conference"
- "very comprehensive range of topics and presenters"
- "a truly fantastic event!"
- "This was an exceptional event populated by an amazing breadth of researchers, bloggers, academics, companies, and global health crusaders.
Often at health conferences you see the same speakers and firms over and over, rehashing the same demos or Powerpoints. Not in Toronto.
Conversations exceeded all expectations, and the collegial feel encouraged open debate among participants." - "I loved how everyone was actively participating - laptops being used to engage in the current presentation by tweeting, accessing a mentioned site, blogging etc."
- "round tables in the main auditorium facilitated networking nicely"
- "I loved the diversity of the attendees"
- "rich debate following each presentation"
- "very high level of presentations"
- "I learned so much! Where do I start?"
- "state of art in the field"
- "thanks for putting all of this conference together and doing so in an opensource style! (...) It was truly amazing how willing people were to share their true concerns and most forward-thinking ideas within this atmosphere."
Please contact the local organizers for ideas and suggestions for Medicine 2.0'10, including proposals for partnerships and sponsorships, keynote speakers, organizing / scientific committee member suggestions.
If you are interested in organizing your own Medicine 2.0 workshop, tutorial or conference, contact the conference series producer, G. Eysenbach geysenba[at]gmail.com
Aggregated RSS of all relevant Medicine 2.0 Congress feedsThe Medicine 2.0 Aggregator is a little tool developed using Y! Pipes that aggregates feeds from various social media applications (Twitter, Crowdvine, FlickR, Slideshare, and others), recognizing the Medicine 2.0 Congress tags (medicine20, or #med2 in Twitter), and spitting out an aggregate RSS feed. We will even try something revolutionary this year: We'll feed titles of submitted abstracts and conference registrants into the data stream, in real time, as they are submitted. So grab the RSS feed above and stick it into your iGoogle homepage, your blog, on your website, etc.
Medicine 2.0'11 (Stanford University, USA)
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
September 16, 2011 – September 18, 2011
Thank you, Stanford, for hosting Medicine 2.0'11, which was SOLD OUT and a great success.
See you all next year in Boston!
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Medicine 2.0’12 | Boston, USA
5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Medicine, Health & Biomedical Research
15-16 September, 2012
Abstract/Speaker Proposal Submission Deadline: March 7th, 2012
The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
(the following is archived information about the 2011 Medicine 2.0 Congress at Stanford)
[Important Information for Oral Presenters at Congress] [Important Information for Poster Presenters]
[Important Information for Demo-Interactive Presenters] [Frequently Asked Questions about Medicine 2.0 Logistics]
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 The Medicine 2.0 Fall Conference 2011 will be hosted in Silicon Valley, home to many of the world's preeminent technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Intel, and others. The conference will be hosted by the Stanford University School of Medicine, and will be held at the school's brand new $90 millon Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge. Stanford University is located in Northern California, approximately 35 miles south of San Francisco. | ||
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Advisors Abstract and Poster Secondary Review CommitteeInternational Medical Informatics Association Social Media Working Group Chris Paton, BMBS BMedSci FACHI Francisco Grajales, BHK, MSc (C), CSEP-CEP Luis Fernández-Luque, MSc. Peter Murray, PhD Margaret Hansen, Ed.D. MSN, RN, Prajesh Chhanabhai , | ||
Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, US
September 15, 2012 – September 16, 2012
Quick links: Venue | New: FINAL Schedule | Download Final Program PDF (18MB) | Follow us on Twitter! | Accepted Abstracts | Speakers
Missed 2012? See you next year at Medicine 2.0'13 in London Sept 23-24, 2013
Create Account / Pre-register here for 2013 if you haven't attended a Medicine 2.0 event before
Thank you to all attendees and presenters who helped to make this years' med2 the best Medicine 2.0 ever! We had 500 attendees from 36 countries, and with over 7000 tweets from the conference the #med2 hashtag was trending among the top 10 hashtags on twitter on a global level during the conference. See you all in London 2013!
If you attended Medicine 2.0'12 in Boston, please fill in the evaluation form to help us improve future events (also contains a poll on where it should be hosted after London 2013!)
Announcement (26-Jul-2012): Important Information for Presenters
Announcement (25-Jul-2012): Tentative Schedule Online
Please login at http://www.medicine20congress.com and check your notification preferences for Medicine 2.0’12 to receive notifications for this conference. If you do not have an account with this site, please pre-register here to be on our mailing list.
Interested in exhibiting at or sponsoring Medicine 2.0? Please see our sponsorship opportunities page.
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Medicine 2.0'13 (London, UK)
Mermaid Conference and Events Center
Puddle Dock, Blackfriars, London, EC4V 3DB
London, England, GB
September 23, 2013 – September 24, 2013
Medicine 2.0 is the leading academic conference series for Internet, Social Media, and mobile apps in health - Join us at the 2013 World Congress in London, UK
Medicine 2.0'13 is over and was a full success - over 520 participants, and everybody went home energized and inspired, with new ideas and new contacts. Hope to see you all next year! If you attended London, please complete the evaluation form!.
In addition, if you liked the event, leave a few nice words about it on the LinkedIn profile. If you like the Medicine 2.0 social network, leave a few nice words on its LinkedIn profile as well.
Missed Medicine 2.0'13? Don't miss the next Medicine 2.0'14 on Maui/Hawaii, USA, Nov 23-24, 2014 and Medicine 2.0'14 Europe in Malaga, Oct 9-10, 2014 - Deadline for both: March 12th, 2014
Final Schedule now available | Information for Presenters and Chairs | Follow us on Twitter! | Accepted Abstracts | Speakers (accepted presenters must register to appear here)
Download the Final Program for 2013 as PDF (24MB)
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Medicine 2.0'14 Europe (Malaga, Spain)
Sol Príncipe
Paseo Colorado, 26
Torremolinos 29620
Spain
Torremolinos, Malaga, ES
October 9, 2014 – October 10, 2014
Medicine 2.0 is the leading academic conference series for Internet, Social Media, and mobile apps in health
Join us at the Medicine 2.0 Europe Conference in Malaga, Spain on Oct 9th and 10th, 2014.
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Medicine 2.0'14 Summit & World Congress (Maui, Hawaii, USA)
Sheraton Maui Resort
2605 Kaanapali Parkway, Lahaina, Lahaina, Maui, HI 96761, United States
Maui (HI), USA, US
November 13, 2014 – November 14, 2014
Medicine 2.0 is the leading academic conference series for Internet, Social Media, and mobile apps in health
Join us at the Medicine 2.0 Conference in Maui, Hawaii, USA on Nov 13th and14th, 2014.
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