HealthCamp SFBay

Todd Park, HHS CTO, hosting a session on open health data.

With over 260 people registered, 4 sessions for each of the 15 rooms, and hundreds of shared conversations, it is not surprise that we generated enough content and interest to garner over 2 million Twitter impressions!

The organizing team for HealthCamp SFBay wants to send a shout out to all the attendees (present and virtual) and sponsors who made the day such a success!

For the second year in a row, HealthCampSFBay is SOLD OUT! Thanks all for your support.

#HCSFBay is ready to rock, with final preparations underway. We look forward to seeing you all at the event, Wednesday October 6th!

We encourage attendees to take public transportation to HealthCamp! To make this possible, we are offering FREE shuttles to and from the San Leandro BART station. For Health 2.0 hotel guests at the Hilton Union Square, the Powell Street BART station is only a few minute walk from the hotel. Here are the times:

• 7:45 am pick up from San Leandro BART to Garfield Center
• 8:40 am pick up from San Leandro BART to Garfield Center
• 8:50 am pick up from San Leandro BART to Garfield Center
• 4:30 pm pick up from Garfield Center to San Leandro BART
• 4:45 pm pick up from Garfield Center to San Leandro BART
• 5:00 pm pick up from Garfield Center to San Leandro BART

We have recently confirmed that an amazing mover and shaker in the healthcare technology space, Todd Park, will be opening up the day during HealthCamp this October:

Todd Park is the go-to guy for open government at the Health and Human Services Department. As chief technology officer, he is the executive lead for the HHS (United States Department of Health and Human Services) open-government plan, which spans dozens of initiatives, and he oversees HHS’ Community Health Data Initiative, introduced in June to offer free online access to HHS data. Park is also a sponsor of the HHS Innovates contest for employees and recently flexed his social media muscles by publicizing that competition in a YouTube video with Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist.

HealthCamp is going to be even more exciting this year! We will be co-hosting the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge during HealthCamp to provide a great venue to share ideas on creating new challenges and teams as well as processes to address the challenges.

The 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge was launched in early June at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting at the IOM, with support from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Initiated in March 2010, CHDI hoped to ignite innovation using newly opened government data sets. The Health 2.0 Developer Challenge is supported by HHS but is being run by Health 2.0, the company that hosts the well known Health 2.0 Conferences. The goal is to continue the excitement of CHDI and to bring the Health 2.0 Community together for rapid application development. Anyone can submit a challenge or join a team to solve a challenge. Teams will be working on challenges over the course of the summer. Selected winners from the challenges will be showcased at the Fall Health 2.0 Conference.

The first brainstorming session (talks, sponsors, speakers, food, logistics…) for HealthCampSFBay 2010 happened yesterday in Oakland with our tried and true team from last year:

From left:

Julie Murchinson
Health 2.0 Accelerator

Danielle Cass
Kaiser Permanente

Maren Connary
Zoomedia

Sherry Fry
Kaiser Permanente

Mike Kirkwood
Polka

We always work better after eating! We’ll keep you posted on developments as we pull the event together.

We just got confirmation that we are going to have the Sidney R. Garfield Health Care Innovation Center again this year and we couldn’t be more excited! HealthCamp 2010 will be held on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 – we’ll post more information soon.

Register for HCSFBay 2010