First Health 2.0 Europe Conference to be Held in Paris

Health 2.0 Europe's conference agenda will address a number of topics relevant to Europe's growing e-health industry. These include patients using web based tools to guide their own care, web interaction between healthcare professionals and between professionals and patients, and the strategic implications for traditional healthcare actors. The conference will also showcase innovative, European e-health start-ups and provide a platform for national healthcare leaders to address e-health issues on a European scale. Keynote speakers are senior health policy makers Etienne Caniard (French National Authority for Health) and Pieter Vos, Raad voor de Volksgezondheid en Zorg (Council for Public Health and Health Care). Over 500 attendees are expected at the inaugural event, hailing from patient and physician communities, online and mobile tool providers, hospitals, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and government in 10 European countries.

"E-health is one of the most important business sectors in Europe today," said Denise Silber, president of Basil Strategies, who is organizing the Paris event with Health 2.0's founders, Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya. "Health 2.0 Europe integrates the Web 2.0 user-generated content concept with a number of aspects of health that are fundamentally different in Europe than in the U.S. It is therefore crucial to address the local industry with local actors from European countries, and we are thrilled by the number of partners who are already enthusiastically supporting this event."

For four years, the Health 2.0 conference has been the premier bi-annual industry forum for the converging industries of Web 2.0 and social media in the U.S. Since its inception, Health 2.0 has enjoyed a strong network of supporting partners encompassing the healthcare and technology ecosystems, ranging from industrials, to organizations, to health technology innovators.

For further information and registration, please visit:
http://www.health2con.com/paris2010/

About Health 2.0 Europe
Health 2.0 Europe is the premier conference dedicated to how Web 2.0 and social media are transforming healthcare systems in Europe. The conference brings together professionals in the converging industries of healthcare, the internet, mobile applications and social media to address how Web 2.0 and mobile technologies revolutionize both healthcare delivery and treatment. Health 2.0 Europe is organized by pioneering experts from Europe and the U.S. with decades of combined experience in health- and Web- related business and consulting, Matthew Holt and Indu Subaya, founders of Health 2.0 in San Francisco, and Denise Silber, president of Basil Strategies in Paris. The conference also partners with a number of "ambassadors", specialists in the business and Please visit www.health2con.com/paris2010 for more information, or follow Health 2.0 Europe and its online communities and groups on Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook.