We are pleased to bring you the LIVE tweeting/blogging coverage of the Social Health Summit... So keep watching this space on SEP 19th, 2011 (sign up for a reminder below).

• Please use hashtag #SXSH to join in the conversation
• An updated agenda for the day can be found here
• An updated list of speakers can be found here

Also, please join in the lunchtinme (12.45-1.45pm ET) LIVE WEBCAST for the launch of "Is My Cancer Different":

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Only 1 more day to go till the 2011 Social Health Summit (SXSH) kicks off in Philadelphia, PA. Here's a list of things you should have done or be considering as you prepare for the event (some of these things don't reuqire you to be physically there to attend)...

1. REGISTRATION
   Have you registered for the event? If not, go to http://sxsh2011.eventbrite.com and register right away -- much easier and quicker than doing it onsite.

2. TWEETUP/RECEPTION
   Have you signed up for the #SXSHup (tweetup/reception) on Monday (SEP 19th) evening, sponsored by Edelman and the Digital Health Coalition? If not, sign up for the reception at: http://twtvite.com/sxshup .

   If you're sticking around for the ePatient Connections conference, don't forget to also sign up for the Pixels and Pills sponsored tweetup on SEP 20th: http://twtvite.com/epatconup2011 .

3. "Is My Cancer Different" -- LIVE LAUNCH WEBCAST
   A major reason SXSH was possible this year was because of our MAJOR sponsor, IsMyCancerDifferent.com . They have chosen SXSH as the location where they want to launch their educational campaign on personalized medicine and cancer. So, please show your appreciation by helping to spread the word about their launch event, which will be live webcasted from SXSH:
   DATE: Monday, SEP 19th, 2011
   TIME: 12.45pm ET
   WEBCAST/REGISTRATION: http://IsMyCancerDifferent.com/webcast
   
   
4. REVIEW THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AGENDA/SPEAKER-SCHEDULE
   Check out the SXSH 2011 SCHED.org schedule for the most up-to-date agenda, timing, and speaker schedule.

5. LIVE TWETING/BLOGGING FROM SXSH
   Follow along the live proceedings via an aggregated, real-time view of the 2011 SXSH being live tweeted/blogged from the event, so you can participate and join in the conversation virtually as well (if you are not in attendance)
6. THANK OUR SPONSORS
   Please thank all our sponsors and event partners (by visitng their sites and supporting their cause) for all their support and making SXSH 2011possible.

   MAJOR SPONSOR:
   

   
   
   CORPORATE SPONSOR:
   
   
   
   EVENT PARTNERS:
   
   
   
   
   FRIENDS OF SXSH:
   
   • Fran Melmed
   • Andrew Levitt
   • Frank Dolan
   • Janet Sameh
   • Mark Scrimshire
   • Gigi Peterkin
   • Russell Starke
   • Bob Brooks
   • Alisa M. Hughley
   • Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
   • Xavier Petit
   • Paulo Machado
   • Bruce Grant
   • Joe Hogan

THANK YOU!!!

And thanks to everyone for your support, interest, and participation in SXSH! We'll see you in Philly!

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“e-Patient Dave” deBronkart was diagnosed in January 2007 with Stage IV, Grade 4 renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) at a very late stage. His median survival time at diagnosis was just 24 weeks; with tumors in both lungs, several bones, and muscle tissue, his prognosis was “grim,” as one web site described it.

He received great treatment at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: his surgeon removed the extensive mess (laparoscopically!), and the Biologic Therapy program helped him participate in a clinical trial for the powerful but severe High Dosage Interleukin-2 (HDIL-2). His last treatment was July 23, 2007, and by September it was clear he’d beaten the disease. His remaining lesions have continued to shrink.

Today: Advocate and Activist

An accomplished speaker and writer in his professional life before his illness, today Dave is actively engaged in opening health care information directly to patients on an unprecedented level, thus creating a new dynamic in how information is delivered, accessed and used by the patient. This is revolutionizing the relationship between patient and health care providers, which in turn will impact insurance, careers/jobs, quality of life and the distribution of finances across the entire spectrum of health care.

Dave's blog, tweets, and wikipedia page.

"Required Reading/Watching" if you plan to attend Dave's Keynote session at SXSH:

For more on the speakers for this year's SXSH, visit our Meet the Speakers page!

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Thank you for everyone's participation in the #SXSH and #ePatCon ticket giveaway.

Winners will be notified by email. Since we don't have the first names or Twitter handles of the winners, here are the winner's email prefixes:

#SXSH Winners

• idemills - SXSH
  
• carissao - SXSH
  
• christine.kraft - SXSH
• preetipinto - SXSH
  
• matthewdbrowning - SXSH

#ePatCon Winners

• kduvanel - ePatCon
• chrishall196 - ePatCon

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE DRAWING!!!

See you at #SXSH and/or #ePatCon

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Thanks to our Sponsors

Firstly, we would like to thank our MAJOR sponsor "Is My Cancer Different" for their kind support and sponsorship of the Social Health Summit! We would also like to thank our Corporate Sponsor, Closerlook.

NOTE: The Drawing has ended. Winners will be announced shortly!

Enter to Win Tickets to #ePatCon and #SXSH!

Lucky for everyone interested in ePatient Connections (#ePatCon) and the Social Health Summit (#SXSH), IsMyCancerDifferent.com has kindly donated 2 tickets to #ePatCon and 5 tickets to the #SXSH to be given away to 7 lucky people in a random drawing.

How do you enter into the drawing?

Simply visit IsMyCancerDifferent.com and submit your email to register for more info (see image below) and your name will be entered into a drawing with a chance to win 1 of the 7 tickets to ePatCon or Social Health. Winners will be randomly selected and announced on FRI, SEP 16th.

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For more on the speakers for this year's SXSH, visit our Meet the Speakers page!

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She blogs at Leigh Fazzina and you can follow her on Twitter at @leighfazzina. To meet our other SXSH 2011 speakers, visit the Speakers Page!

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Sara Holoubek (@sarita) is the CEO & founder of Luminary Labs, a strategy & innovation consultancy.

Ms. Holoubek has worked wi

th a broad range of clients to make key business transformation decisions, including Sanofi-Aventis, LexisNexis, BMW, Texas Instruments, startups Clickable, Conductor, drop.io and Symposia Group, and agencies within the WPP family and the Aegis Group family.

Ms. Holoubek has been widely quoted in publications such as The Washington Post, WSJ.com, Adweek, DMNews, ClickZ, Internet Retailer, Strategies (France) and PropMark (Brazil). She also serves as a frequent guest lecturer at venues such as ad:tech, SMX, Search Engine Strategies, OMMA, the DMA, Harvard, NYU and Baruch College.

For more on this year's SXSH 2011 speakers, visit our Speakers Page!

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For more on our SXSH 2011 speakers, visit the Speakers Page!

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In addition to personal ventures, he also invests in early stage technology and digital health startups taking an active advisory role with founders. With deep expertise in the digital health space, Mark's focus and passion includes mobile, search, and customer service in a digital world. With over 15 years of industry experience, Mark is an internationally recognized expert on topics including the Internet and the healthcare systme, new media, health information technology trends, mobile, social, and pharmaceutical sales and marketing. 

Mr. Bard received an M.B.A. from Kenan-Flager Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.H.A. from the School of Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Mark lives in Miami, Florida with his wife Elaine and son Matthew.

Find out more about Mark and his fellow SXSH speakers by visiting our Speakers Page!

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You can read Jane's work at her blog, Health Populi, and follow her on Twitter at @healthythinker.  For more information on the speakers slated for this year's SXSH event, check out the Meet the Speakers page!

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Silja Chouquet is the owner and CEO of whydot GmbH, an agency specialized in social media consulting, coaching and training. Her fields of expertise are the creation of patient-focused social media communications and marketing campaigns.  Silja passionately believes that pharma can create better patient-focus through social media.

Silja started her career as a senior consultant at Mercer Management (now Oliver Wyman). She holds a BS in International Business and Marketing from Georgetown University in Washington DC and an MBA from INSEAD.  She's the co-founder of #hcsmeu Healthcare and Social media in Europe tweet up, and you can find her on Twitter at @whydotpharma.

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Check out this video of Fabio Gratton interviewing Ed at SXSW 2011!

For more about Ed, you can visit his website, Found in Cache or follow him on Twitter at @edbennett, and for more on the speakers for this year's SXSH, visit our Meet the Speakers page!

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Melissa has been a guest lecturer at the Wharton Business School and has appeared as a conference presenter for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), ePharma Summit, the Market Research Association (MRA), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Association of Medical Media (AMM). In 2009, she testified on behalf of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) at the FDA Public Hearing on Internet and social media.

For more on Melissa and her fellow SXSH 2011 speakers, check out our Speakers Page!

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We are VERY pleased and excited to announce that Todd Park (CTO, Health and Human Services) will be presenting the Kickoff Keynote Address at this year's Social Health Summit.

Todd was featured as one of Fast Company's "Top 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010" and many of you will also know him from the recent Health Data Initiative Forum, as well as his dynamic, passionate, and overall kick-ass presentation at South by Southwest (Health Track) on Data Liberacion (actually, it was titled "How Open Health Data Can Improve America's Health") :-). Below is the interview that Shwen conducted with Todd and Tim O'Reilly at SXSW 2011:

Todd joined HHS as Chief Technology Officer in August 2009. In this role, he is responsible for helping HHS leadership harness the power of data, technology, and innovation to improve the health and welfare of the nation. Mr. Park co-founded Athenahealth in 1997 and co-led its development over the following decade into one of the most innovative, socially-oriented, and successful health information technology companies in the industry. Prior to Athenahealth, he served as a management consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, focusing on health care strategy, technology, and operations. Mr. Park has also served in a volunteer capacity as a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focused on health IT and health reform policy, and as senior health care advisor to Ashoka, a leading global incubator of social entrepreneurs, where he helped start a venture to bring affordable telehealth, drugs, diagnostics, and clean water to rural India. Mr. Park graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with an A.B. in economics.

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KICKOFF KEYNOTE:

• Todd Park — CTO, Health and Human Services *NEW

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

• Ed Bennett — Director, Web Strategy at University of Maryland Medical Center
• Tom Chernaik — CEO at CMP.LY
  
• ePatient Dave (deBronkart) — ePatient Advocate and Activist *NEW
• Melissa Davies — Senior Account Director at NM Incite (Nielsen/McKinsey)
• Garth Holsinger — Global VP of Sales / Biz Dev at Klout *DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, GARTH CANNOT JOIN US
  
• Jane Sarasohn Kahn — Health Economist and Management Consultant
• Lawrence Sherman, FACME, CCMEP (@meducate) — SVP at Prova Education (see: TEDx Maastricht Talk) *DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, DR. SHERMAN CANNOT JOIN US
  

 UNCONFERENCE SPEAKERS:

• Mark Bard — Co-Founder and Board of Directors, Digital Health Coalition
• Silja Chouquet —CEO of whydot GmbH and author of WhyDotPharma Blog
• Leigh Fazzina — Principal at Fazzina & Co. Communications Consulting Inc.
  
• Bruce Grant —SVP, Strategic Services, Digitas Health 
• Sara Holoubek — CEO and Founder, Luminary Labs
• Fran Melmed — Host of #co_health workplace wellness community and chats *NEW
• Jenni Prokopy and Kerri Sparling — Chronicbabe and SixUntilMe; Bloggers, ePatients, SXSH organizers *NEW
  
• Meredith Ressi — President of Manhattan Research
• Michelle Samplin-Salgado — Communications Director, AIDS.gov *NEW
  
• Alicia Staley — CANCER SURVIVOR X3, Director of The Staely Foundation *DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, ALICIA CANNOT JOIN US
• Nic Wilson — Marketing Specialist, BodyMedia *NEW
  

Keep watching this space to see updates as more speakers get added to the list and how u can also submit your topic for the SXSH unconference portion.

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Hi Folks!

At long last we are finally launching the new website and (officially) announcing the 2011 Social Health Summit (Speakers + Unconference).

DATE: SEP 19th, 2011
TIME: 8am-5pm (likely followed by an evening reception)
PLACE: The Hyatt at The Bellevue – Philadelphia, PA
COST: We will be opening up registration and pricing soon!

Many thanks to Kevin Kruse, Christine MacAdams, and the rest of the ePatCon crew (or is it Kru?), for kindly sponsoring the meeting space where SXSH 2011 will be held -- the Hyatt Bellvue (same location as ePatCon, which will be held on SEP 20th-21st immediately following SXSH).

If you are interested in attending, please stay tuned for more details -- we will be launching the Eventbrite registration in the next few weeks.

If you are interested in sponsoring this event (there are many options), please email info@sxsh.org

KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE!!!

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Welcome to the NEW Social Health website/blog. 

If you are looking for the event media from Social Health (SXSH) 2010, I have listed them below and you can also visit the original website for the 2010 Social Health Summit.

BLOGS:

Pre-Conference

• Health Digital Check-Up: South By Social Health (by Dave Levy, Edelman Digital)
• South by Social Health (SxSH) (by Greg Matthews, Humana)
• Tweet Positioning System (TPS): #SXSH hashtag
• PharmaTweetical: #SXSH hashtag

Post-Conference

• SXSH: 10 Ways For HealthCare Organizations To Build Trust (by Rohit Bhargava, Ogilvy)
• SXSH and Social Health's Coming of Age (by @Doctor_V, 33charts.com)
• Healthcare finds its community mojo at SXSH in Austin (by Jeff Greene, HealthEd)
• Recapping Social Health 2010: Part 1, 2 (by Jamie Scheu)
• SXSH: Consumerism has no place in social health (by Rebecca Camp,via Disruptive Women in Health Care )
• Livestrong CEO: Social Media Will Change Health Care Forever  (by Jody Schoger, Women with Cancer)
• Librarians and ePatients as Partners (by @LukeTheLibrarian, LukeTheLibrarian)
• Social media: The game changer (by Jody Schoger, via CureToday.com)
• SXSH, SXSW, FDASM, eHealth Mobile, Literacy & More (by PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian)
• A Week After: Recap of #SXSH (by Reed Smith, IAmReedSmith)

SLIDES:

• FDASM: The Making of a Social Media Movement by Fabio Gratton (Ignite Health)
  
• The Mobile eHealth App Opportunity, 2010 by John Mcelhenney (WCG)
  
• Championing Health Literacy on the Web by Jeff Greene (HealthEd)
  
• Building Social Media Objects by Brady Walcott (IMC²)
• The Relationship Revolution by Greg Matthews (Humana)
  

VIDEOS:

• Official SXSH 2010 YouTube Channel 
  • Un-terview with Doug Ulman (CEO, Livestrong)
  • Un-terview with Brian Vartabedian (@Doctor_V, 33charts.com)
  • Un-terview with Greg Matthews (@chimoose, Humana)
    
• Interview with Chia Hwu (by David Spark, via Tweetshare)

SXSH 2010 TALKS:

Doug Ulman (LIVESTRONG)

Fabio Gratton (#FDASM)

March Monseau (J&J)

David Hale (National Library of Medicine)

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