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"title": "Health 2.0 Goes to Washington"
"description": "Susannah Fox talked about mobile, social health (and the power of being in the capital) at the first DC Health 2.0 conference in Washington, DC."
"date": "2010-06-07"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Susannah Fox"
    "job_title": "Former Researcher"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/susannah-fox/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/2010/06/07/health-2-0-goes-to-washington/"
"categories":
  - "Federal Government"
  - "Health Care"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Healthcare Online"
  - "Medicine & Health"
  - "Online Search"
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# Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

Susannah Fox was on the host committee for the first [Health 2.0 conference in Washington, DC](http://www.health2con.com/past/dc-2010-agenda/) and offered her insights about mobile, social health:

[http://www.health2con.com/mediaplayer/player-licensed-viral.swf](http://www.health2con.com/mediaplayer/player-licensed-viral.swf)

Speakers included:

- **Todd Park**, *Chief Technology Officer, US Health and Human Services*, 
- **Aneesh Chopra**, *Chief Technology Officer of the United States* 
- **Linda Harris**, *Lead, Health Communication and eHealth, US Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)* 
- **Kenneth Buetow**, *Associate Director, BioInformatics, National Cancer Institute & Founder, caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid)* 
- **Jon White**, *Health IT Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)* 
- **Wil Yu**, *Director of Innovation, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)* 
- **Joshua Seidman**, *Office of Provider Adoption Support, Office of the National Coordinator* …**AND more than 30** technology demonstrations from leading Health 2.0 companies.