---
title: "Health 2.0 Goes to Washington"
description: "Susannah Fox talked about mobile, social health (and the power of being in the capital) at the first DC Health 2.0 conference in Washington, DC."
date: "2010-06-07"
authors:
  - name: "Susannah Fox"
    job_title: "Former Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2010/06/07/health-2-0-goes-to-washington/"
categories:
  - "Federal Government"
  - "Health Care"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Healthcare Online"
  - "Medicine & Health"
  - "Online Search"
---

# Health 2.0 Goes to Washington

Susannah Fox was on the host committee for the first [Health 2.0 conference in Washington, DC](http://www.health2con.com/past/dc-2010-agenda/) and offered her insights about mobile, social health:

[http://www.health2con.com/mediaplayer/player-licensed-viral.swf](http://www.health2con.com/mediaplayer/player-licensed-viral.swf)

Speakers included:

-  **Todd Park**, *Chief Technology Officer, US Health and Human Services*,
-  **Aneesh Chopra**, *Chief Technology Officer of the United States*
-  **Linda Harris**, *Lead, Health Communication and eHealth, US Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)*
-  **Kenneth Buetow**, *Associate Director, BioInformatics, National Cancer Institute & Founder, caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid)*
-  **Jon White**, *Health IT Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)*
-  **Wil Yu**, *Director of Innovation, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)*
-  **Joshua Seidman**, *Office of Provider Adoption Support, Office of the National Coordinator* ...**AND more than 30** technology demonstrations from leading Health 2.0 companies.