Empowering people to manage their health: "Health 2.0"

I stumbled across a new term today: "Health 2.0" Although it's a bit hard to define (like it's cousin web 2.0), I think it's fair to say that a major part of health 2.0 is a movement toward people having tools to take charge of managing their own health. For more specific attempts at defining it, see the health 2.0 wiki.

Health 2.0 also seems to be a phenomenon mainly taking place through web-based applications, which makes sense. One of the hallmarks of web 2.0 has been social networking, which can be harnessed to do things like connect groups people with similar health concerns (see Patients Like Me). The web also makes it much easier for small startups with great ideas to get their neat health-related software out into the world where people can use it--and many of the great ideas for empowering people in caring for their health are going to come from small startups.

So clearly, TriggerFood can be considered part of this larger health 2.0 movement. It's a simple application, and serves a small market, but hopefully it can be a big help to that niche (myself included).