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Fresh from Health 2.0: two dozen of the most innovative new health apps

Source: VentureBeat

Oct 10, 2009

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The Health 2.0 conference is probably the only “2.0″ conference that doesn’t belong to the O’Reilly empire (it was founded by healthcare visionaries Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya in 2007). However, like many of the other “2.0″ conferences, it also has a little identity crisis — exactly what does “Health 2.0″ mean? Well, that’s one of the questions 1000+ healthcare pioneers came together to discuss at this week’s conference in San Francisco.

On a high level, Health 2.0 is about putting consumers back in the driver’s seat of their own care and giving tools to doctors and providers to make this happen. But take a closer looks and it’s clear that there are several different areas of innovation that will get us to that point.

Here, divided up by category, are some of the more memorable products and tools I saw launched or demoed at the conference.

The online platform is arguably the best tool for gathering the kind of detailed life stream data that truly drives behavior change. After all, few of us would check out our weight/blood glucose/cholesterol trends on a PC b

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