FrançaisHere's a starter collection of quotes about Health 2.0 Europe Paris from speakers and participants. Only a few hundred more to go...Seriously, if you attended, please email me your answer or put in "comments". Question is: "What is the conference's messages to you and yours (country)?"
Canada
Colleen YOUNG
Seeing the lens focus on Health 2.0 Europe after watching the action on the US stage helped describe Canada's possible role in the global Health 2.0 movement. Canada has the opportunity to be petri dish for discovering and implementing multilanguage/multicultural solutions. Any truly successful eHealth solution in our country must consider the needs of a multicultural society. An onerous task to say the least. But our advantage is that this multicultural society is governed by one government. Sure we will have to negotiate the provincial differences, but we will not have to straddle multiple regulatory rules and policies as Europe does. Thanks to our long history of bilingualism and multiculturalism, we are familiar with the challenges and benefits of providing information in 2 or more languages and recognizing the importance of cultural sensibilities.
I hope that Canada will be the torch bearer of multilingual/multicultural eHealth solutions that will empower patients of all cultures in our country and to offer lessons-learned to other partnerships delivering solutions in multiple languages. I look forward to being a part of this exciting endeavour.
Denmark
Morten PETERSEN
It was a great opportunity to present The Danish e-Health Portal at Health 2.0 conference in Paris. Though we offer the Danish citizens many empowering services it was very inspiring to get a worldwide glance of the newest technical solutions, which will involve and engage people in their health in still more ways. I look forward to take advantage of the contacts I made and the lessons I earned. Thank you for a very interesting, high-level and professional conference.
France
Etienne CANIARD
It was very important for an institution in charge of the quality of care, such as the HAS (French Health Authority) to be present at this first European edition of Health 2.0. In so doing, we were able to verify firsthand that all of the Health Care Actors have taken hold of the new tools and that institutions must think differently. It’s not about finding new solutions to unresolved problems but to envisage a different organization that can disrupt or overturn our approaches to Health Care
Sébastien of SUPERGELULE
There is a real gap between France and the “Anglo-Saxon” countries that we need to fill regarding the use of the social web for health care. This difference in terms of the progression of thinking and use of new interactive means of communication was demonstrated by the conference; it opens up new opportunities for health care actors whether public or private, and also for patients who have every interest in jumping on to the movement.
Valérie RAVERY
- The rich, shared experiences; certain countries such as Denmark are way ahead, perhaps thanks to a greater cultural openness. These are akk positive examples to inspire France.
- France is late in terms of the relation beween physicians and patients, bureaucratic delays, the powers that be, slow-moving pharma
- But, we can feel that things will change; hopefully thanks to innovative networks like health20fr (the Paris chapter), we’ll see new things in the next 2-3 years
- Conclusion: I am confident and excited by the development potential
Germany
Christian ANGELE
If Health 2.0 was a virus it finally infected Europe - no technology can substitute for real human contact and so I took a lot of inspiration, great learnings and a lot of business cards with me back home to Germany - but above all a feeling that we are onto something great and we have not yet realized how great it really is!"
Alex SCHACHINGER
Much to evangelize, push, show, consult, try, start!
Hungary
Berci MESKO
Health 2.0 Europe was a huge success and it had some important messages for Hungarian initiatives as well. First, there are plenty of national, isolated examples of great online medical services in Europe which leads to a situation that is quite different from what is happening now in the USA. Second, even if someone comes up with a good idea that might work in one country, the implementation must be international as there will certainly be a time when we can overcome language barriers. In the last years, a few Hungarian medical websites have attracted millions of users but none of them could embrace social media effectively. At Health 2.0 Europe, managers and founders of these sites saw clear examples of using social media in medicine and probably will bring this important message home. We all hope Health 2.0 will come back to Europe soon.
Gabor GYARMATI
Health 2.0 Europe Paris was a great event that pointed to both the strength of the US Health 2.0 solutions and to the importance of the Health 2.0 movement in Europe. Using all the overseas experiences, we can build a different, European way of online health engagement with similar structure but different language and sociocultural versions for each EU country. The conference showed us how social media could revolutionize healthcare in Hungary or any other European nation by improving access to healthcare information and services, focusing on patients.
Netherlands
Chris FLIM
Health2.0 Paris gave an impressive overview of practical examples emphasizing that internet results in huge paradigm shifts in healthcare.The presentations and discussions will help the Netherlands to make Health2.0 mainstream in healthcare & wellness.”
Pieter VOS
Quite amazing and very hopeful: so much people being busy with 2.0. The energy and passion to do things better in health care. And to share visions and knowledge about health 2.0. Such a conference not only brings people together on a mission, but stimulates international coordination and collabaration, necessary in my point of view, for future health care. And last but not least, this conference undoubtly will boost Dutch national efforts concerning health 2.0 policy."
Spain
Miguel CABRER
It has been great to bring the successful Health 2.0 conference into Europe. The conference gave the opportunity to compare Health 2.0 initiatives from the US and Europe. The diversity of projects and approaches make it really interesting for the audience. From the point of view of Spain, we had a big opportunity to learn some health 2.0 experiences developed in other Europeans countries like UK or the Netherlands and that could be brought to our region in order to improve healthcare system.
UK
Clive PINDER
For too long the healthcare debate in the UK has been dominated by the politics of 'private vs. public' and 'clinicians vs. the administrators', all of whom are looking to protect their status and influence while hiding behind a facade of 'what is best for the patient'. It was refreshing to attend a conference that had the consumer/citizen front and centre of every debate and presentation, and that was informed by people who, more often than not, had made a genuine impact in the delivery of improved experience and outcomes in their own community, market or country.
The fact that no senior person from the Dept of Health or NHS saw fit to attend, while many from mainland Europe did, speaks volumes for the state of debate in the UK and the isolationism and 'NIH' complex that exists at the Department of Health.
All is not lost though, as it is clear that the future of healthcare will be driven by the passion, knowledge and excellence of the innovators and community/consumer activists that led the debate over the two days. The 'state' (politicians and clinicians) can sit on the sidelines or participate in the movement. In the world of Health2.0, standing still and status quo is not an option."
US
Gary THOMPSON
"By crossing the pond, the Health 2.0 conference made clear that the answers to questions from online communities for patients and physicians to pharma to hospital and payers will not find their answer on one continent. From Brussels to Texas, from Paris to Chicago, from Budapest to San Francisco, each one of us depends on both simple and dramatic advances in health care. I am bringing home to Texas not only fond memories from Les Invalides but a reinvigorated passion for being a part of the Health 2.0 revolution and helping to tap the Power of People. Connected."
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