A few weeks back I attended my second HealthCamp – this one was in Philadelphia at a Jefferson University conference center. Just like my first HealthCamp, (in Washington D.C.) this was an energetic group – smart, quick and full of ideas.
I call these events “open-source” conferences. They follow the BarCamp model of user-generated sessions, and the Wikipedia definition is on-target:
“…open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including public transit, health care, and political organizing.”
All the participants are engaged, and passionate about the possibilities Health 2.0 can make in healthcare. The energy level is high, and conversations run a network speeds.
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