The BMJ (British Medical Journal) Group has announced its partnership with Health 2.0 Europe - a conference dedicated to how Web 2.0 and social media are transforming healthcare systems in Europe. The two-day event, scheduled for April 6-7, 2010, at the Cité Universitaire International in Paris, will bring together experts from the converging industries of healthcare, the Internet, mobile applications and social media.
BMJ Group will publicise the event to its international network of physicians and healthcare professionals as well as offer a special discounted rate to practising healthcare professionals to attend the conference.
In 2009, the BMJ Group launched doc2doc, an international Health 2.0 community for physicians which now has over 20,000 members. doc2doc will also be exhibited at the conference. The conference will address a number of topics relevant to Europe’s growing e-health industry. These include patients using web-based tools to guide their own care, web interaction between healthcare professionals and between professionals and patients, and the strategic implications for the traditional provision of healthcare.
The conference will also showcase innovative, European e-health start-ups and provide a platform for national healthcare leaders to address e-health issues on a European scale.
Keynote speakers include senior health policy makers Etienne Caniard (French National Authority for Health) and Pieter Vos, Raad voor de Volksgezondheid en Zorg (Council for Public Health and Health Care). Over 500 attendees are expected, from patient and physician communities, online and mobile tool providers, hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and government in 10 European countries.
For four years, the Health 2.0 conference has reportedly been a premier bi-annual industry forum for the converging industries of Web 2.0 and social media in the US.
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