Just back from London and Med 2.0

For the second year I attended Med 2.0. Just like last year I covered the conference for eAJKD. It is a fascinating look at the influences of social media, the internet and mobile technology on medicine and health. Please take a look at these posts:

• Why Medicine 2.0
• Susan Michie and the science of changing behavior
• Twitter: listening to a million conversations at once
• My very short time on stage at Med 2.0
• Technology for the elderly
• Closing Keynote, the present and future of sensors

Prescribing an app from Joel Topf

Great blog post with video of Sherry Pagoto's talk, Hashtag your way to Health.

The best way to revisit the conference is through the twitter stream. Symplur has all the tweets archived here.

The twitter analytics are mind blowing:

Compare that to Kidney Week '12 which felt about 10 times the size of Med 2.0:

It was a great conference and if you are interested they are holding it in Hawaii next year, but I'm thinking about checking out MedX instead.