HealthCamp San Diego 2011

HealthCamp San Diego 2011 is here

It will be at the UCSD Rady School of Management on Sunday March 20th. Click the register here button from the HealthCamp San Diego page to register.

HealthCamp is a national movement led by volunteers focused on social media and the best of the Internet and Mobile Web to work for better health for patients and better health care for providers.

It’s an “un–conference” where patients, health providers, health industry experts and technology professionals come together for a one day event to exchange ideas informally, locally, openly. You provide the content, with break-out sessions they develop themselves and plug into a schedule grid on the day of the event. Anyone can present and host a session in nearly any format.

You can also follow us on Twitter, including John Amschler @jxa, Chris Mahoney @cpmahoney, to the current stable of Danielle Cass,@daniellecass, Mike Kirkwood @mikekirkwood and Gregg Masters @2healthguru.

Just search the hashtag #hcsd11

HealthCamp is Coming to San Diego!

HealthCamp is coming to San Diego, September 7th, 2010 at theTown and Country Resort and Convention Center. It will be in coordination with the 2nd International mHealth Networking Conference.

HealthCamp is a collaborative experience that focuses on social media, interactive health technology and mobile health (mHealth) for better health care.

HealthCamp is a user-organized “un–conference” that brings together consumers, health providers, payors, health industry experts and technology professionals for a one (1) day session to exchange ideas informally and openly. Participants themselves provide the content. The crowd determines the break-out sessions which are posted on a grid and people attend any of the sessions they desire throughout the day. Anyone can present or host a session.

Past healthcamps have been in Boston, Philadephia, Washington, DC, Nashville, San Leandro (San Francisco Bay area), Maryland and the UK. For an overview of healthcamp, click here.

Please consider joining me and many other leaders in health care social media this inaugural event in San Diego.

To register:

Register for HealthCamp San Diego in San Diego, CA  on Eventbrite

HealthCamp San Diego is made possible by the generous principal support of:

Kaiser Permanente

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Worried About a Changing Mole? Better Call for a Botox Appointment.

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The Botox® line moves a lot faster

A recent study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology looked at the length of time patients wait to see a dermatologist. The authors called nearly 900 dermatology offices in 12 cities to request an appointment.

In a previous study they found that it took 26 days to be seen in a dermatologist’s office for a changing mole.

Repeating the study, but this time trying to make an appointment for Botox injections, they found that the median wait time was 8 days (with a range of 6 to 32 days). The shortest wait times were in Orange County, California and Miami, Florida.

The wait time for patients seeking Botox was therefore 18 days shorter than the wait time for patients seeking evaluation of a changing mole.

  • The chances of getting an appointment within a week for Botox: 23%
  • The chances of getting an appointment within a week for evaluation of a changing mole: 17%

The chances that further cuts in physician reimbursement for medical dermatology will make this despicable discrepancy worse: 99%

Resneck, JS. et al. Short Wait Times for Patients Seeking Cosmetic Botulinum Toxin Appointments with Dermatologists. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007;57:985-9