Health 2.0 Accelerator

Posted by michaelryan

July 8, 2008

Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya, MD are up to it again. They recently launched a wiki “Health Accelerator 2.0“ which was inspired by Dr. Marty Tenenbaum’s and his comments during 2007 Health 2.0 conference held in San Francisco (and San Diego Health 2.0)which I watched & listen too last September. Here are some details about their latest innovation:

“For several months there has been discussion amongst Health 2.0 companies
about the concept of a Health 2.0 Accelerator. It started with Marty
Tenenbaum’s introduction of the concept in September 2007. It continued with
the discussion at the San Diego meeting in March 2008. Since then
conversations and meetings among a small group have continued to define a
first cut at what the Health 2.0 Accelerator should be.The basic idea is for organizations to collaborate to create “public goods”

– frameworks and strategies that will help all concerned to advance the
industry. The way to do this is via projects that tackle particular
problems, and leave behind frameworks and utilities that all can use. The reality is of course going to be more complex, but we’re delighted to
announce that the first project concerning moving pharmaceutical data has
been announced, and the first principles and statements about the future of
the Accelerator are now up at its own wiki at Health2Accelerator.org
http://www.health2accelerator.org/

The initial H2A project will be “Drug Profile Interoperability” given several of the founding members. The goal is “Consumers, providers, physicians, pharmacists and payers may evaluate current and prospective drug regimen treatments on cost and safety concerns.”

The question is an “independent group” such as Health 2.0 Accelerator too dependent on specific vendors (their concepts, propriety solutions, financial resources, expectations) provided in the charter membership establish a framework that in contrary to their mission. Time will tell, it would be my guess that a wider cross section of industry vendors ensures greater input, creativity and innovations versus being bound by one specific vendors “proprietary solution” or “proprietary business model” that may limit the group’s options.

I joined this group today and encourage others do the same that operate in the Health 2.0 world. It should be interesting to watch this group tackle various technical, programming and social networking issues among many others in the next phase of Health 2.0 in the years ahead.

Take care,

Michael

www.execimpactgroup.com