Health 2.0 NYC - The New York Healthcare Innovation Group

May 26, 2010 7:00 PM - 51 attended

May 26 Meeting Agenda Update

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We have an amazing agenda lined up for our next meeting:

Clay Ewing will be giving us a demonstration of his new board game:

How do we inform people that are ignorant of their lack of knowledge?
Even though Congress passed a health care bill, the price of care is
still an issue that needs to be addressed. By embedding real world
cost information into a game, we can teach people to be more informed
consumers. Hustlin' Health Care is a board game that aims to put
Players in the role of an insurance company, flipping their
perspective of the industry while mixing in real world claims data.

Sneak Peak at FairCareMD.com!

Anybody who has ever looked at an EOB knows the gross disparity between what self-pays pay for care and what the big insurance companies do. This is fair to neither Doctors nor Patients. The fact is that People who are paying directly for their care are charged 2-7 times more than big insurance companies pay for the same services. With the recession and the increase in High Deductible and HSA health plans, the proportion of people paying for a significant portion of their own care has risen to 36% of the population. This has increased patient consumerism but there is no good healthcare shopping system for self-pays and it is hard for people to get a fair price for care.

Simultaneously, Doctors are reducing the number of plans they participate with and are even starting to opt out of Medicare in larger numbers. Their problem is that they need a way to acquire new patients to replace being “in the book.”

FairCareMD.com was created to solve these related problems. FairCareMD.com is an online marketplace that allows Doctors and Patients to meet and agree on services and prices that are fair to both.

On May 31st, FairCareMD.com will allow the public to try out their new solution for direct healthcare contracting. Come to the NYC Health 2.0 Meetup on May 26th if you would like a sneak peek at the system.

Doctor Signup is open on May 15th so please forward this notice to any Healthcare Providers you believe will want to become FairCareMDs.

Sriram Subramanian will talk about the opportunities and challenges of emerging mobile technologies for biopharma companies. Sriram's company - WhizRx - helps these companies walk the tightrope of using these technologies to make the lives of patients and providers easier while remaining unobtrusive.

Please come prepared for a stimulating evening of new offerings. Don't hesitate to invite friends and colleagues. See you next week! Lynn

Alex Fair
Hi Folks. I am just finishing up the editing of the videos. If anyone want to make sur ethey are not in them please advise!

Please also visit FairCareMD, register, and tell us the care you are interested in. Completely free, private and anonymous if you wish! You may also find a great doc as we have about 45 in the system across a dozen specialties.

Thanks.

Posted May 29, 2010 at 9:43 PM
Clay Ewing
Hey Everyone, I "officially" released a version of Hustlin' Health Care. It can be purchased here: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/hustlin-health-care

Unfortunately, there's no sexy wooden box & board, but the game still plays the same.

Posted June 3, 2010 at 4:46 PM
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51 attended

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Event Host

Lynn Nezin
Co-Organizer
Event Host

Eugene Borukhovich
Founder of Health20nyc, Co-Organizer
Alex Fair
Organizer

Thanks all. I greatly appreciate all the positive (and negative) feedback. This group has been an amazing resource in my journey to this point and I recommend it to anyone in the space. I am editing the videos for publication. If you want an unedited copy, please email and I will send you a link. Best to all! Alex
Bernie Kahn

Highly impressed with FaircareMD, and appreciated the other speakers as well. A strong benefit of the group is the diverse background of its members, with the different perspectives giving opportunity for real insights.
Peggy Frizzell

Lynn, Thanks for organizing a great program. Very comprehensive. It is amazing how many new ideas are in the process of being developed to answer the multiple needs in healthcare. Best, Peggy Frizzell
Serge
Mary Conway
Laurie Wheeler
Sponsorship Chairperson, Co-Organizer
Philip D Micali
Phillip
Jane
Tim Brown
Co-Organizer
karl schmieder
Matt Dumas
Samir Ajmera
Joyce
Dr. Lori Zeller
Priyanka
Aron S.
Mary
Clay Ewing
Monika
Kendrick Patterson
Zach Magaw
Kathleen
Chris DeNoia
Mark
Jay Greene
Lena Feygin

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Mary
Bartho Hengst
Martin Breslin
Preston Law
alan tenenbaum
alma kondili
Kerry McDonald
Aleksandr Roytbreg
Edward Toumekian
Teri Mendelsohn
Sriram Subramanian
ST
Michael Monson
Edouard Valla

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This group is dedicated to advancing innovations that focus on improving patient care with the active involvement of Patients, Physicians, Nurses, Administrators, Engineers, and even Lawyers. If your interest is in improving the practice and performance of medicine, than this is the meetup for you.

Borne of the Health 2.0 international movement, Eugene Borukovich started the NYC chapter in 2008. Our chapter has since grown to become the largest healthcare innovation focused meetup in the world, running events that focus on specific topics such as the impact of social media in Healthcare or our Startup pitch contest called "Pitch Yourself into the Shark Tank." The investments, partnerships and collaborations that have come from this meetup are myriad, as we purposely foster the genesis, growth and development of innovative technology companies. A few of the companies that have presented: Phreesia, Zweena, ZocDoc, HelloHealth, YourNurseIsOn, DrChrono, ComScore, HealthLeap, MyHealthExperience, Healthrageous, WellApps, and a few dozen others.

Be like me, come with an idea, leave with a company. I run this group as my way of saying thanks for helping my concept get from the drawing board to over 250,000 searches for care and the attention of Patients, Physicians, Hospitals, Employers, and VCs across the country with our new healthcare marketplace.

...but this isn't about me, it is what over 1,250 healthcare innovators can do for healthcare.

Who presents here?

Patients who have defined issues to be addressed and / or designed apps to improve their health and the health of others
Physicians who create innovative care models, develop solutios, or simply are looking for new ways to address the problems they see
Entrepreneurs who create new innovative healthcare solutions
Hospital Executives driving development and adoption of new ideas
Nurses who reinvent nursing management or point of care solutions
Investors, Angels, and VCs looking for the next big thing
Pharma, Insurance, and Diagnostics companies that look for new technologies and companies to work with
Pharmacists who design better medication management, adherence, distribution or other systems
Game Designers who make patient education fun
Quantification companies that help people self-monitor (see also Quantified Self meetup)
Engineers, Programmers, and Hackers that invent and enable new care paradigms
Designers who create popular apps
Innovative government leaders seeking positive change
Reporters and Bloggers who want to see the cutting edge before it happens and spread the word
and so many more amazing people and companies...

Mostly what we have are the leaders of the NYC healthcare innovation scene. By putting us all together in one place, we are creating the future of healthcare.

We are always looking for start-ups and individuals to present the ideas or products they are working on. Please be welcome to join the conversation, propose a topic, or suggest an alternative format. We are a largely user-driven group, so suggest a topic and we will do the most popular event.

We also enable more established companies to get their message out to the healthcare innovation community through sponsorship and speaking. So if there is an event, challenge, or product release you would like to talk about, please contact me.

Thanks for visiting, we hope to see you soon!

-Alex Fair

Organizer www.Health20nyc.com

Founder www.FairCareMD.com