A.D.A.M. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alan Greene (right) amused the audience and ACOR's Gilles Frydman (left) by referencing Thomas Jefferson half a dozen times during a plenary session on Wednesday here at Health 2.0 in Boston.
Sensei CEO Bob Schwarzberg demonstrates his company's latest iPhone application, My Diabetes Guide.
A.D.A.M. CEO Kevin Noland demonstrates his company's latest iPhone offering, Medzio, which includes features and services bundled together from nine partners.
Don Caruso from Dartmouth Hitchcock-Keene Clinic (second from left) explains why he doesn't want technology that will be "disruptive" to physicians' workflow, while Rushika Fernandopulle from Renaissance Health (far left), John Halamanka from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (second from right), and James Hereford from Group Health Cooperative (far right) listen in.
Google Health's Roni Zeiger (center) says Google has learned from its recent debacle with ePatient Dave's PHR, but we shouldn't "throw the baby out with the bath water," we just need to make the data better. HelloHealth's Sean Khozin (left) and Kaiser Permanente's Ted Eytan (right) nodded in agreement.
On Thursday, Neil Calman from the Institute for Family Health told the audience at Health 2.0 connectivity is no longer the problem -- even his 80 year old patients have mobile phones now.
PatientsLikeMe Chairman Jamie Heywood was much more diplomatic than the provocative slide behind him.
Cisco exec and ePatient Dave's doctor Danny Sands (far right) compares physicians to quarter backs and patients to footballs: Doctors need to keep their eye on the ball -- patients need to be the focus, he explained. ePatient Dave later joked he was proud to be one of Dr. Sands' balls. Seriously.
American Well's Roy Schoenburg (far left), HelloHealth's Jay Parkinson (second from left) and Mass General Stoeckle Institute's Susan Edgman-Levitan (second from right) listen in as Sands crafts his ill-fated metaphor. (To be fair, he later retracted it.)
ex-Chief Medical Officer of Lumenos, Michael Parkinson (left) and ePatient Dave deBronkart settle in for a Q&A period after their presentations. Moments later ePatient Dave said, while he still hadn't reached a final conclusion, HIPAA seemed to be "completely stupid and useless." Many in the audience clapped.
