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Revolution Health Gets Gobbled Up By Everyday Health
As previously discussed, Waterfront Media acquired Revolution Health in a deal the New York Times valued at $300 million. Waterfront Media is a Brooklyn-based company that runs Everyday Health.com and represents many condition-specific health sites (including PsychCentral.com). Case joins Waterfront’s board of directors. Expect massive staff reductions at the Revolution Health offices in D.C.
New York Times Health Section
The New York Times published an amazing array of health articles yesterday, each one of which is worthy of a discussion on this blog (and not just because we were […]
Taxpayer Access: The NIH Public Access Policy
“Taxpayer access” – the principle that American taxpayers should have free, timely, public access to the results of publicly funded research – would change the public access to scientific articles, and put critical biomedical research into the hands of those who need it.
Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics
The Pew Internet Project will conduct a national telephone survey this fall about the internet’s impact on health and health care. One of the first tasks is to look at […]
Please vote for GlobalCures
Update: voting ends midnight EDT Monday 9/29. Great post Friday on John Halamka’s GeekDoctor blog. It’s about GlobalCures, an entry in MembersProject, an American Express contest that has $2.5 million […]
The Im-Patient Consumer
Josh Seidman has a new entrant in the health care name game: The Im-Patient Consumer. As he explains, “Americans for the most part are too [expletive of choice] patient with […]
Cognitive Surplus & Tough Economic Times: An Explosive Cocktail?
The growth of the e-Patients movement may be experiencing surprising strength from a completely unexpected source, with many people growing the ranks of the movement because of the greatest motivator […]
Dr. Val Jones Leaves Revolution
Although not explicitly mentioned, it appears Dr. Val Jones, the Senior Medical Director at Revolution Health, has quietly left the company and is starting her own venture, Better Health. You can read an interview where she discusses her new life online, with not a single mention of her 2+ year efforts at Revolution. Rumor has it that Revolution actually terminated most of its relationships with medical staff, moving highly paid doctors like Dr. Val from full-time to a consulting role only. Glad to see her move on with her own “brand” and venturing out on her own!
Pareto’s Tyranny vs. the Paradox of Rarity: Why ACOR succeeded
Why have rare diseases been so disproportionally represented in the online medical communities since we started creating these resources in the early 90s? Could the Pareto Principle be responsible for this unusual finding?
For Sale: Revolution Health
Why is Steve Case’s online health venture already looking to sell itself, just a year and a half after it launched? Yet another tale of hubris in the e-health sector. […]
Cloud computing puts your health data at risk?
In today’s
Windows Secrets, Stuart Johnston writes about the pros and cons of having our health data out on the Internet, as proposed by Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault. Quotes: “Selling prescription records is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry”; “Disclosure of health information is [already] out of control.” Yikes?
e-patients: How they can help us heal healthcare, chapter 1
e-Patient Dave joined this group in March 2008 thanks to an introduction by Danny Sands, MD, his primary care physician. Dave quickly established himself as the number one fan of […]
