That was the title of a conference organized this past week by a state-based medical research foundation. It explored how the new online world will impact health care — or, in the sponsor’s words, “What Happens When Social Media and Medicine Collide?” Jennifer Burke Labriola of the Donaghue Foundation, which sponsored the event, sent in the following photos and captions. (After-conference blog here.)
Donaghue Foundation President and Trustee Lynne Garner addresses the room at Donaghue’s annual “Beyond Eureka” conference, held Wednesday at the Hartford Farmington Marriott. The conference — which attracted more than 300 health leaders from across the state — addressed the impact of online social media and other online innovations on healthcare landscape.
Keynote speakers Alex Jadad, Chief Innovator of the Center for Global eHealth Innovation, Sharon Terry, President and CEO of the Genetic Alliance, and Ben Heywood, President and Founder of PatientsLikeMe.com, engage in a panel discussion at the conference.