This episode of the Digital Health Revolution features Fabio Gratton, President of Ignite Health’s (www.ignitehealth.com) eastern division. Gratton talks about how the pharmaceutical industry has been influenced by social media and whether it is ready to engage Internet empowered consumers on their own terms. Gratton also discusses “Live With It,” a groundbreaking animated HIV education video series that has garnered significant attention and praise.

The Digital Health Revolution is a biweekly WebTV show featuring the people who are using and making the digital technologies that are reshaping health around the world. Join host Fard Johnmar every two weeks to explore the people and technologies reshaping healthcare.

ScribeMedia is a convergent media company that helps organizations in health care, media, technology, and cleantech develop and execute new media strategies. ScribeMedia develops Web-based software applications such as social media platforms, live video webcasting tools, e-learning applications, and contest web sites. ScribeMedia produces media such as concerts, conferences, documentaries, TV and WebTV shows. ScribeMedia helps customers reach their target audience in new and engaging ways.

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Broadband video, search engines, merging medical info with personal medical data, ad networks, and social media; efforts to mesh health and Web 2.0 abound. What’s working? What’s not? What’s next?

Panelists
Raj Amin, CEO and co-founder, HealthiNation
Steven H. Krein, CEO and co-founder, OrganizedWisdom
Daniel Palestrant, CEO, Sermo
Dean Stephens, president & COO, Healthline.

Moderator
Michael Mason, Health Editor, NYTimes.com

For some companies the hoopla about how people are using the Internet to connect with others about health is old news. MedHelp, founded in 1994, is one of them. Born way before the first dotcom crash, MedHelp has been connecting consumers with healthcare providers for nearly 15 years. In this episode, we chat with John De Souza, CEO of Med Help about the Internet and being an online old-timer.

The Digital Health Revolution is a biweekly WebTV show featuring the people who are using and making the digital technologies that are reshaping health around the world. Join host Fard Johnmar every two weeks to explore the people and technologies reshaping healthcare.

ScribeMedia is a convergent media company that helps organizations in health care, media, technology, and cleantech develop and execute new media strategies. ScribeMedia develops Web-based software applications such as social media platforms, live video webcasting tools, e-learning applications, and contest web sites. ScribeMedia produces media such as concerts, conferences, documentaries, TV and WebTV shows. ScribeMedia helps customers reach their target audience in new and engaging ways.

To view all episodes, please visit the Digital Health Revolution home page.

Last year, DHR traveled to the epicenter of the Health 2.0 movement (San Francisco) to conduct interviews with some of the people who are using social media technologies to
impact health. While there, we couldn’t pass up the chance to speak with Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, co-founders of the Health 2.0 conference. Holt and Subaiya field some tough questions about the definition of Health 2.0 and whether it is just another tech buzzword.

The Digital Health Revolution is a biweekly WebTV show featuring the people who are using and making the digital technologies that are reshaping health around the world. Join host Fard Johnmar every two weeks to explore the people and technologies reshaping healthcare.

ScribeMedia is a convergent media company that helps organizations in health care, media, technology, and cleantech develop and execute new media strategies. ScribeMedia develops Web-based software applications such as social media platforms, live video webcasting tools, e-learning applications, and contest web sites. ScribeMedia produces media such as concerts, conferences, documentaries, TV and WebTV shows. ScribeMedia helps customers reach their target audience in new and engaging ways.

To view all episodes, please visit the Digital Health Revolution home page.

During DHR’s trip to San Francisco for the Health 2.0 conference we were grateful to Healthline, a health-focused search engine, for providing us with space to conduct several interviews with people attending the conference. While at Healthline’s offices, we spoke with Dean Stephens President & COO of the company about online health search and of course, Google.

The Digital Health Revolution is a biweekly WebTV show featuring the people who are using and making the digital technologies that are reshaping health around the world. Join host Fard Johnmar every two weeks to explore the people and technologies reshaping healthcare.

ScribeMedia is a convergent media company that helps organizations in health care, media, technology, and cleantech develop and execute new media strategies. ScribeMedia develops Web-based software applications such as social media platforms, live video webcasting tools, e-learning applications, and contest web sites. ScribeMedia produces media such as concerts, conferences, documentaries, TV and WebTV shows. ScribeMedia helps customers reach their target audience in new and engaging ways.

To view all episodes, please visit the Digital Health Revolution home page.

Professor Regina Herzlinger of the Harvard Business School won the Consumers for Health Care Choices Pioneer in Health Economics Award for 2007.

She is the author or editor of three books that laid out the intellectual foundation for the consumer empowerment movement: Market-Driven Health Care (1996); Consumer-Driven Health Care (2004); and Who Killed Health Care? (2007).

She is a frequent lecturer on all aspects of health care reform, and serves on the Boards of various innovative health care companies.

Dr. Garrison Bliss is a board certified physician with 30 years of practice in primary care. His Seattle Medical Associates was the second practice in America to test a monthly fee “concierge medicine” approach to primary care.

His new company, Qliance, is bringing the same principles to working people, including those who are uninsured. He is a past president and chairman of the Society for Innovative Medical Practice Design, and widely considered the leading voice for patient-financed medicine in the United States.

Bill Boyles is the editor and publisher of the Consumer Driven Market Report and the Health Market Survey. He has been covering and reporting on Congress since 1976 and has published numerous newsletters following the evolution of the benefits markets.

He was the first journalist to identify the profound change represented by consumer driven health care. He does not merely report on events but has been involved in organizing conferences both here and abroad and is a featured speaker at dozens of events every year.

Paul F. Levy, President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, delivers the keynote presentation at the Health Care Communications Forum, hosted by Insight Forums.

Paul F. Levy President and Chief Executive Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Paul F. Levy was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in January 2002. A major patient care, research, and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and a founding member of CareGroup Healthcare System, Beth Israel Deaconess is the third-largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research funding among independent U.S. teaching hospitals.

Mr. Levy served as Executive Dean of Harvard Medical School before joining BIDMC. He established a national reputation as an administrator with his service as the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, the agency charged with the cleanup of Boston Harbor, one of the largest pollution-control projects in the world. He has also served as chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy.

Before joining Harvard Medical School, Mr. Levy was adjunct professor of environmental policy at MIT, where he taught infrastructure planning and development and environmental policy for seven years. He has also maintained an independent consulting practice, providing strategic, negotiation, and regulatory advice to firms in the energy, water, and telecommunications arenas.

Mr. Levy holds Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning, and a Master’s in City Planning from MIT. He is the co-author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements (Island Press, 1999). He coaches girls’ soccer, referees youth soccer, and plays on a coed adult team.

Welcome to The Digital Health Revolution, a biweekly WebTV show featuring the people who are using and making the digital technologies that are reshaping health around the world.

We are pleased to welcome Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet & American Life Project (www.pew.org) to the program. Susannah’s research has shed light on how Americans are using and being influenced by the Internet. For the past decade Fox has led the way in helping us understand how the Internet is impacting the lives of Americans from all walks of life. Since leaving US News and World Report for Pew, she has published numerous research studies on this topic and shed light on the blogging revolution.

In this episode, Fox talks about a concept that was introduced in the 1990s, but has only recently begin to gather steam: the e-patient revolution. E-patients (http://www.e-patients.net/), a term coined by Dr. Tom Ferguson (who passed away in 2006), are individuals who are using the Internet to become true partners in their healthcare. Fox talks about how patients (or e-patients) are being empowered by the Internet.

Join host Fard Johnmar every two weeks to explore the people and technologies reshaping healthcare.

ScribeMedia is a convergent media company that helps organizations in health care, media, technology, and cleantech develop and execute new media strategies. ScribeMedia develops Web-based software applications such as social media platforms, live video webcasting tools, e-learning applications, and contest web sites. ScribeMedia produces media such as concerts, conferences, documentaries, TV and WebTV shows. ScribeMedia helps customers reach their target audience in new and engaging ways.