Day One.
The Health Care Globalization Summit opens later today, so let me set the stage a little more.
Today focuses on something called "Health 3.0," which is Web-based health care. The idea is to use the Internet to get patients thinking more like consumers -- shopping around for the doctors and treatment they want, rather than relying on their family doctor to be the source of all such information.
There's an obvious attraction to this -- who hasn't been frustrated by a doctor or clinic before? If you have, giving patients some choice and power can start too look attractive.
But there's obvious downsides, too. Doctors have been to medical school, after all, and no amount of Web surfing by a patient can replace that.
