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Rx Tech - How Getting Wired Helps Users Hack Health

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Jen McCabe Contagion Health
Description Gaming culture, mHealth, eHealth, geotech, and health infotech has transformed the way we express ourselves, access information, and interact with one another. But are 'Me-trics' extreme hackability and open access to these channels helping or harming us? In key ways, moving moribund systems, our wired culture is improving health and informing healthcare reform. This panel explores how being wired helps users hack healthcare.
Questions
Answered
  1. What is Health 2.0? Why should you care? What's next?
  2. What is micro-relevance? How does it help us incentivize healthier decisions?
  3. Why will micro-formats lead to macro-changes in health?
  4. How can hacking for health be contagious?
  5. Personal 'Self-ome' Hacks: How will your genetic information be harvested?
  6. What health data do you own? How will your genetic information be used for your benefit as a patient?
  7. Why contextual and ubiquitous visualizations of health data are necessary, like, NOW?
  8. How are government agencies embracing Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies in support of public health?
  9. Hacking Rx: Can your iPhone recognize your pills and stop a drug interaction?
  10. Gaming for health: How can video games fight disease?
Level Beginner
Category Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Design Thinking, Geolocation, New Technology / Next Generation, Social Issues