| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.12.2025 | VHC Health Answers Demand: Seamless Virtual Urgent Care Launches in D.C. Metro Area | What You Should Know:
–VHC Health, a community-based health system providing medical services to the Washington, DC metropolitan area, is proud to expand telehealth services through a strategic partnership with HealthTap, a tech-enabled vir... |
| 29.10.2025 | Samsung brings virtual doctor consultation to millions through its Health app | What’s happened? Samsung is turning your phone into a full-fledged healthcare hub. The company has partnered with HealthTap, a leading virtual-care provider, to offer virtual primary and urgent-care visits directly inside the Samsung Health... |
| 04.08.2025 | HealthTap Launches Virtual Direct Primary Care Program | What You Should Know:
– HealthTap, a virtual healthcare provider, today announced the launch of its Direct Virtual Primary Care for Organizations program.
– The new program enables employers, cost-sharing entities, and other member-based or... |
| 28.05.2025 | This Meditation App Helps Busy Entrepreneurs Find Balance A $100 lifetime subscription to Harmony Premium Plan helps you add self-care to your routine. | A survey by FasterCapital discovered that 32% of entrepreneurs include meditation in their busy day. Given how stressful entrepreneurial life can be, it might be time to join them if you're not already meditating.
Harmony helps you unlock s... |
| 10.02.2025 | Transformative healthcare: The virtual shift | - |
| 12.12.2024 | The HealthTap Lawsuit: A Tale of Betrayal in the Startup World | In the fast-paced world of startups, fortunes can rise and fall like the tide. HealthTap, once a shining star in the telehealth industry, now finds itself embroiled in a storm of legal battles. A recent lawsuit has unveiled a narrative of m... |
| 11.12.2024 | The AI Revolution: Transforming Healthcare and IT for a New Era | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword; it’s a tidal wave reshaping industries. In healthcare and IT, AI is the engine driving efficiency, precision, and innovation. The transformation is profound, with each sector harnessing A... |
| 11.12.2024 | HealthTap Lawsuit Alleged VC Manipulation in Startup Valuations | What You Should Know:
– Shareholders of HealthTap, Inc., a once-promising telehealth company, have filed a lawsuit against Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and its affiliates, alleging breaches of fiduciary duty and a scheme to dilute minority s... |
| 11.12.2024 | AI transforming healthcare with better outcomes & efficiency | The healthcare industry is experiencing significant changes driven by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), which is altering how care is delivered and improving patient outcomes.
The global AI in healthcare market is on a growth pa... |
| 13.11.2024 | HealthTap Enter DME Market with Aeroflow Healthcare | What You Should Know:
– HealthTap, a leading virtual healthcare provider delivering affordable, high-quality primary care, today announced its launch into the durable medical equipment (DME) market with its first partner, Aeroflow Healthcar... |
| 14.06.2024 | HealthTap Now Takes Insurance, Making Affordable Virtual Primary Care a Reality for All | What You Should Know:
– HealthTap, a virtual healthcare provider, just announced a major step towards making quality primary care accessible to all.
– Patients in all 50 states can now use their insurance when seeking virtual visits with bo... |
| 28.09.2023 | HealthTap Launches AI-Powered Patient Interviews Using GPT-4 to Enhance Telemedicine Visits | HealthTap, a leading virtual healthcare provider delivering quality, affordable primary care across the U.S.,launched a new version of its Dr.A.I. feature, a pre-appointment patient interview experience powered GPT-4. The most advanced Chat... |
| 17.02.2023 | Best Telemedicine Apps for Quality Healthcare Solutions at Home [2023] | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 17 February 2023, 08:02 am
Teleconsultation was already a trend even before the COVID-19 scare came. However, when the pandemic era emerged, it became more popular among patients who want to seek instant solutions r... |
| 13.10.2022 | Samsung, HealthTap Partner to Develop Telehealth Capabilities for Smart TVs | primary care
What You Should Know:
For those seeking care, Samsung Smart TV owners would be able to seamlessly connect to HealthTap’s interactive healthcare platform and visit with a doctor of their choice through a connected television cam... |
| 13.09.2022 | How HealthTap Is Transforming the Patient-Doctor Relationship | David Thompson, Tech Times 13 September 2022, 12:09 pm
(Photo : mohamed Hassan from Pixabay)
A person's relationship with their health is complex. While most people want to be healthy, it can be difficult getting there. Depending on an indi... |
| 05.04.2022 | How HealthTap Puts Remote Healthcare into the Hands of Consumers | The Covid-19 pandemic put a never-seen-before spotlight on telehealth. Remote healthcare services stepped into a sudden reduction of in-person care created by fears and restrictions caused by the virus.
While the most intense days of the pa... |
| 11.02.2022 | HealthTap Launches Eval360 for Health Plans to Expand PCP Care for Members | What You Should Know:
HealthTap is a nationwide virtual primary care provider, delivering quality primary care affordably to all Americans, whether or not they have good insurance. HealthTap provides its members access to their own long-ter... |
| 25.10.2021 | HealthTap Expands Patient Referral Capabilities by Leveraging Health Gorilla's National Health Information Network | PALO ALTO, Calif. and WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Health Gorilla, the leading Health Information Network in the United States and HealthTap, a virtual health care provider of Urgent and Primary Care, have announced a partnershi... |
| 16.08.2021 | HealthTap : Launches Care Orchestration to Drive Timely Use of Employee Benefits | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthTap, a leading virtual healthcare provider, today announced that HealthTap Enterprise clients can add Care Orchestration into their HealthTap employee telemedicine plans. Care Orche... |
| 08.05.2021 | The 14 best telemedicine services for check-ups, urgent care, mental health care, and more | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 13.04.2021 | Telemedicine to become the new normal post the pandemic? | Our memories of visiting clinics are filled with hustling to get appointments, waiting endlessly for our turns in the waiting rooms and wishing apprehensively to avoid syringes & all sorts of prickly items (well at least when we were ki... |
| 19.11.2020 | Daily funding roundup - November 18th, 2020 | Grouparoo has raised $3M; Food Market Hub secured $4M; Rapid Robotics landed $5.5M
Grouparoo: Grouparoo is a Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of cus... |
| 16.06.2020 | 8 Cs To Build Your Channel Strategy And Get Back To Growth | |
| 13.01.2020 | Cerner Extends On-Site & Near-Site Health Center Experience with 24/7 Digital Primary Care | – Cerner selects HealthTap to further extend healthcare experiences beyond on-site and near-site health and pharmacy centers through HealthTap’s comprehensive digital primary care, including text and video visits and searchable content writ... |
| 26.10.2018 | Anthem building a deep bench of AI scientists | Insurer taps ex-Googler Udi Manber; Kaiser and UnitedHealth making inroads with AI
Some form of artificial intelligence is having a big impact on the healthcare space. Chatbots, for example, are expected to save the industry over $3 billion... |
| 21.08.2018 | HealthTap’s platform uses AI to dispense treatment advice | HealthTap, a Palo Alto, California-based company delivering connected health apps, announced a slew of platform updates today at VentureBeat’s Transform 2018 conference that “augmented the patient experience” with artificial intelligence. I... |
| 21.08.2018 | HealthTap’s platform uses AI to dispense treatment advice | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
HealthTap, a Palo Alto, California-based company delivering connected health apps, announced a slew of platform updates today at Ventur... |
| 02.05.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, May 2 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, May 2.
Tesla sued for $2 billion by hydrogen truck startup over alleged patent infringement. Nikola Motor Company has filed a lawsuit in Arizona alleging tha... |
| 01.05.2018 | A CEO known publicly for the power of smiling was just ousted for intimidating employees | Ron Gutman, the co-founder and CEO of HealthTap, a venture-backed medical advice startup, was reportedly elbowed out today by his board of directors. The reason, the board said in a letter to employees, was that it had finally heard too man... |
| 13.10.2017 | Chatbots to save healthcare industry $3.6B in 2022 | Here are some of the healthcare companies already deploying chatbots
Bot technology is still relatively new and nascent, but it's already becoming part of the strategy of companies both big and small. This is technology that has the ability... |
| 09.03.2017 | How technology is changing the doctor/patient relationship | Ian Shakil, Ron Gutman, Sami Inkinen and Arnaud Bernaert will discuss at Splash Health on March 23
Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco, and we're going to have some great speakers, inclu... |
| 03.03.2017 | How does HealthTap make money? | The app charges users to get access to premium features, as well as for its enterprise services
There are a lot of healthtech companies out there that attempt to tackle individual aspects of wellness. Some are meant to educate, others are m... |
| 13.07.2016 | HealthTap launches Facebook Messenger bot that provides fast access to health care | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
HealthTap is on a mission to make access to health care information and resources easier for everyone, both individually and in the wor... |
| 12.07.2016 | HealthTap makes a bigger push into continuing studies for doctors | HealthTap, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based telehealth startup that says 102,000 doctors now use its platform to connect with patients, has officially snapped up DocPhin, whose app made it easier for doctors to find and read medical res... |
| 14.03.2016 | HealthTap quietly acquires physician app startup Docphin | Palo Alto-based health tech company HealthTap has quietly acquired Docphin, a startup that makes it easier for physicians to find and read medical research, for an undisclosed sum. Docphin was a member of Rock Health's second accelerator cl... |
| 20.01.2016 | Mobile Medical Consultation Service HealthTap Launches Disaster Service HealthTap SOS | It was in the aftermath of the devastating flooding of the Indian city of Chennai that HealthTap first rolled out the services that would become its new HealthTap SOS, which the company launched today at the World Economic Forum.
Flex (form... |
| 28.10.2015 | HealthTap adds operating system to bridge gaps in health records | In a statement it described the operating system this way:
“…it’s built for hospitals, clinics, and health systems, and is designed to integrate patient interactions they’ve never touched before (such as browsing and searching peer-reviewed... |
| 30.09.2015 | HealthTap unveils Compass, an enterprise app to help employees manage their healthcare | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based HealthTap is expanding beyond the consumer space with the launch of a health-management platform aimed right at... |
| 07.05.2015 | How innovation is changing the new care delivery model | At Vator Splash Health 2015, CEOs/founders of HealthTap, Doctor on Demand, HealthPrize get on stage
Startups have emerged to focus on changing the way people are being cared for, as they build out tools, platforms, mobile applications for p... |
| 14.04.2015 | Apple Watch mania sees 13 new health care apps announced in the past week | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With the HIMSS (2015 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) show going on in Chicago this week and the Apple Watch set to d... |
| 14.04.2015 | Apple Watch mania sees 13 new health care apps announced in the past week | With the HIMSS (2015 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society) show going on in Chicago this week and the Apple Watch set to debut on April 24, health and health care companies of all kinds are coming out of the woodwork to show of... |
| 13.04.2015 | Apple Watch healthcare app launches accelerate | We’ve compiled a short list of these apps, what they are designed to do and their target audience. We’ll be updating it, so it’s worth checking in to see what we’ve added.
Access health records
CareEvolution collaborated with Anthem on an a... |
| 08.04.2015 | Tech titans talks climate change and health with Obama, Press Ganey is going public (Morning Read) | Healthcare should watch how life insurance handles managing using personal data to improve its products. The program sounds very familiar to what health insurance and smaller wellness upstarts have offered. It’s worked overseas for life ins... |
| 11.03.2015 | HealthTap Launches RateRx, A Doctor Recommendation System For Drug Treatments | The doctor behind those “doctor-recommended pills” is most likely someone who is paid to tell you that something will work for you whether or not it actually will. That’s why on-demand digital health app HealthTap says it undertook a projec... |
| 06.03.2015 | The Impatient | Ron Gutman Contributor
Editor’s note: Ron Gutman is the founder and CEO of HealthTap, which connects people with trusted health information and doctors via mobile devices and PCs.
Scarcity is commonly defined as the problem of seemingly unl... |
| 21.01.2015 | Doctors tap MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers as top health apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
HealthTap, which offers a mobile telemedecine and health information service, surveyed some 65,000 doctors in its network to find out w... |
| 21.01.2015 | Physicians Rate Best Health Apps of 2014 | James Maynard, Tech Times 21 January 2015, 09:01 am
The best health apps of 2014 have been named from a survey conducted by more than 65,000 physicians from around the United States.
HealthTap, an organization working to connect patients wi... |
| 21.01.2015 | Doctors tap MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers as top health apps | HealthTap, which offers a mobile telemedecine and health information service, surveyed some 65,000 doctors in its network to find out which apps they were recommending to patients.
HealthTap provided doctors with access to a special app rev... |
| 27.10.2014 | Here are some of the top digital health CEOs according to reviews on Glassdoor | I also noted when the CEO rating had been updated, when listed.
Evolent Health CEO Frank Williams came out on top with a 98 percent approval rating (Oct 21)
Castlight Health CEO Giovanni Colella, 95 percent
athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, 8... |
| 23.10.2014 | Mint’s Aaron Patzer Launches Beta Version Of An On-Demand Answers App With $4 Million In Funding From Shasta And First Round | Aaron Patzer, the founder and former CEO of Mint is placing his next bet with the on-demand info space. He and co-founder Jean Sini (another former Minter) are launching the beta of Fountain, an app that gives you advice from a curated set ... |
| 22.10.2014 | HealthTap expands its virtual health service to all specialties, all states | The virtual health care platform HealthTap has launched a new service called “Concierge,” which allows users to connect with their own primary care doctor, or with a specialist, in all 50 states.
The new service is an improvement over Healt... |
| 22.10.2014 | HealthTap expands its virtual health service to all specialties, all states | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The virtual health care platform HealthTap has launched a new service called “Concierge,” which allows users to connect with their own ... |
| 09.10.2014 | How to ask a real doctor (for free) if you have Ebola — without overrunning hospitals | Worried you have Ebola? You most likely don’t, but that hasn’t stopped panicked Americans from flooding overtaxed hospitals.
Of course, 24/7 TV news networks haven’t helped quell the panic, with pundits claiming the government is covering u... |
| 05.09.2014 | B2B2C or direct to consumer: Which telemedicine model will win? | There have also been some barriers impeding growth. Ezra Mehlman of Health Enterprise Partners pointed out that the inability to grow small businesses has historically posed a big barrier to entry in the market. “Regulations that impede int... |
| 13.08.2014 | Why MontCo ecommerce biz Pet360 invested $300K in startup PetCoach | Pet360, a Plymouth Meeting-based e-retailer for “pet parents,” invested $300,000 in PetCoach, a DreamIt Austin startup that lets users ask experts questions about their pets.
Pet360 runs a handful of brands, including petMD, an online libra... |
| 30.07.2014 | HealthTap launches virtual doctor visits on your phone | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lots of companies in the digital health space are... |
| 30.07.2014 | HealthTap launches virtual doctor visits on your phone | Lots of companies in the digital health space are carving out single pain points in the care delivery system and leveraging technology to make them work better. HealthTap, on the other hand, is taking a look at the entire patient experience... |
| 26.07.2014 | Startups Are Finally Hacking Healthcare | Tim Chang Contributor
Tim Chang is a partner at Mayfield who champions entrepreneurs creating companies that leverage new media/tech platforms, populist commerce and digital health.
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It’s called virtual “realit... |
| 28.06.2014 | The Rise Of The “Social Professional” Networks | Jon Bischke Contributor
Editor’s note: Jon Bischke is a founder of Entelo and is an advisor to several startups.
Back in the mid-2000s, many espoused a theory that there would emerge social networks for different types of people. It sounds ... |
| 14.03.2014 | How will health tech startups fare under the ACA? | Out-of-pocket costs are rising, but increased access may ultimately benefit health tech startups
The Affordable Care Act.
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It’s been talked to death—how it will affect businesses, how it will impact the middle class, who ... |
| 16.01.2014 | 14 health care innovation predictions for 2014 | By Vector Staff
2013 saw an accelerated crumbling of borders and boundaries in health care, fueled by technological and scientific advances. Boundaries between high-tech Western medicine and global health practices have begun blurring in in... |
| 30.10.2013 | HealthTap releases voice-controlled Q&A app that turns your phone into a doctor | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
How do I know if i have swine flu? What are symptoms of stomach cancer? What’s this weird rash spreading across my private parts?
These... |
| 30.10.2013 | HealthTap releases voice-controlled Q&A app that turns your phone into a doctor | How do I know if i have swine flu? What are symptoms of stomach cancer? What’s this weird rash spreading across my private parts?
These are critical and sensitive heath questions that HealthTap wants to answer. The health Q&A startup un... |
| 23.10.2013 | The top online health services for consumers | Digital health is booming. A number of web-based and mobile service companies are bringing transparency to health care.
Instead of selecting a doctor based on a friend’s recommendation, you can now peruse anonymous reviews. Rather than call... |
| 24.07.2013 | Physicians and hospitals are warming up to symptom checkers as communication tool | “Now more health-care providers are turning the tables, steering patients to new and improved computerized symptom-checkers that make it easier for them to get reliable information about possible diagnoses, research their condition and even... |
| 30.05.2013 | HealthTap launches 'AppRx' so you can get app recommendations from real doctors | Health Q&A startup HealthTap has added a new feature to its popular mobile apps called AppRx that lets doctors recommend high-quality medical mobile apps to everyday users.
HealthTap caught our eye recently when it raised $24 million in... |
| 21.05.2013 | ConsultingMD Lands $10M From Venrock To Bring Speedy Referrals And Second Opinions Online | When it comes to diagnoses and the possibility of undergoing serious medical procedures, we want second opinions (and trustworthy referrals) whenever we can get them. With 30 to 40 million Americans slated to receive insurance for the first... |
| 13.05.2013 | Mobile health company HealthTap raises $24M to make patients “CEOs of their own health” | HealthTap, a Silicon Valley health tech company, just wrapped up one of the most lucrative Series B financing rounds in the digital health industry. Khosla Ventures led the $24 million raise, and former capitalists Mayfield Fund and Mohr Da... |
| 08.05.2013 | HealthTap Secures $24M Series B |
PALO ALTO, CA, Mobile health platform that connects millions of people with a network of more than 38,000 top doctors for free, today announced it raised $24 million in Series B financing. Khosla Ventures led the round.
>> Click he... |
| 08.05.2013 | HealthTap wins over Khosla and big Series B round | HealthTap’s new financing represents one of the most substantial series B investments to date in the digital health industry. Castlight still holds the record for the biggest round for a digital health company with its $100 million series D... |
| 08.05.2013 | Funding daily: show me the money, say news, health, real estate, and yes, funeral companies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s been a slowish day for funding news, but wit... |
| 08.05.2013 | HealthTap scores $24M from Khosla & others, former Square COO Keith Rabois joins board | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Health Q&A startup HealthTap has raised $24 m... |
| 08.05.2013 | Funding daily: show me the money, say news, health, real estate, and yes, funeral companies | It’s been a slowish day for funding news, but with big dollar signs on many of the deals that did happen. Here’s a rundown on the days’ deals.
Trulia buys Market Leader for $355 million
Yes, that’s actually a company named Market Leader, th... |
| 08.05.2013 | HealthTap Lands $24M From Khosla Ventures And Keith Rabois To Take Its “Quora For Doctors” Global | Since launching in 2010, HealthTap has been on a mission to bring the proverbial “house call” back to healthcare — virtually speaking, of course. With more than 80 percent of people turning to online resources (and to Dr. Google) for health... |
| 08.05.2013 | Khosla Ventures leads $24M round in HealthTap | HealthTap welcomes Keith Rabois to board of directors and Vinod Khosla joins as advisor
Paging Dr. Google: What is this rash on my leg? Is this scabies? (What are scabies?) Did I get them from the elliptical at the gym? (Jk, I haven't been ... |
| 08.05.2013 | HealthTap Raises $24M in Series B Financing | HealthTap, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile health platform, raised $24m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors Mayfield Fund and Mohr Davidow Ventures. In conjunction with th... |
| 08.05.2013 | HealthTap scores $24M from Khosla & others, former Square COO Keith Rabois joins board | Health Q&A startup HealthTap has raised $24 million in its second round of funding and added former Square COO Keith Rabois to its board of directors, the company said today.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based HealthTap offers a popular service fo... |
| 25.04.2013 | Cloud Platform Box Gets HIPAA Compliant, Adds 10 Health App Partners | Cloud storage platform Box is making an aggressive push into the healthcare vertical announcing that it is now HIPAA compliant and has added 10 new healthcare application partners to address industry specific challenges. Out the gate, Box h... |
| 12.04.2013 | Want to share your aches and pains? Try HealthKeep, an anonymous social network (exclusive) | Started a health-tech company? Apply for the Innovation Showdown at HealthBeat 2013 in San Francisco by April 19.
Facebook and Twitter are not the appropriate venues to share that your back is feeling achy or that your bowel is acting up.
L... |
| 16.03.2013 | HealthTap’s Q&A Service Sees 7.5M Uniques Per Month, With MDs Spending An Hour Per Session Providing 581M Answers | What do you do when you have a health question? You likely either search Google or WebMD, try to call your doctor, or set up an appointment. For most people, the latter two options would be preferable, because, after all, you’re more likely... |
| 25.01.2013 | Two startups try to break 10+ trend of search engine as starting point for health info | Here are a few other interesting tidbits from the Pew report:
35 percent of U.S. adults have surfed the Internet to determine the condition they are suffering. Pew researchers have a name for these folks: “online diagnosers.”
53 percent of ... |
| 02.01.2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| 11.12.2012 | Atlanta-based WebMD to lay off 14% of its workforce | Atlanta-based WebMD, the largest source of medical information on the Web according to Comscore, will cut 250 jobs in the coming month as part of an ongoing effort to save $45 million per year.
The company will lay off 14 percent of its tot... |
| 29.11.2012 | Avvo sells off health business to HealthTap, will focus on growing legal side | Avvo’s legal business is doing well. So much so, in fact, that they’ve decided to sell off the health side of the company to help focus its efforts on the law.
Seattle-based Avvo, the online Q&A site for medical and legal advice, announ... |
| 29.11.2012 | Personalized health network HealthTap buys Avvo Health | The acquisition expands HealthTap's network of health professionals to more than 30K
Looks like HealthTap is seeing some strong growth. The personalized health platform announced Thursday that it has acquired Avvo Health, the health divisio... |
| 29.11.2012 | HealthTap Buys Avvo’s Health Business, Looks To Become The Go-To Resource For Medical Advice, Info | Instead of anxiously searching Google or WebMD, people would rather turn to a real human being for answers to their pressing health questions — preferably one who’s been to school for 10 years. The problem is, of course, that visits to the ... |
| 23.08.2012 | Digital health startup HealthTap wants to help physicians do virtual house calls | “We believe that the whole notion of mobile revolution, smartphones, cloud computing and the social engagement are coming together in extremely powerful ways that were not possible even five years ago when we started the previous company,” ... |
| 03.08.2012 | Is there good health information online? These 4 companies are trying to help patients find it | Here are four up-and-coming companies hoping to make it easier for patients to get valuable health information online.
Clear.md: Healthcare providers create and post videos about health topics from basic information that will help patients ... |
| 26.07.2012 | Health video startup launches aiming to be as ubiquitous as YouTube (video) | Clear.MD, which had an official beta launch Monday, has created a technology platform by which doctors can create 30 sec to one-minute long videos about various health topics. The videos are then enhanced visually and uploaded on to Clear.M... |
| 18.07.2012 | Raj Kapoor to depart from Mayfield, announces plans for new model accelerator (updated) | (Updated with quotes from Raj Kapoor)
Raj Kapoor, Mayfield Fund‘s managing director, will leave the Menlo Park venture capital firm as a full-time partner after seven years, to develop a new accelerator program for early-stage startups.
Hou... |
| 11.07.2012 | ChickRx recruits doctors and helpful sexperts for its health platform | ChickRx, a health and wellness startup aimed at women, today rolled out a new platform for female users to seek medical advice from the experts. Cofounders Stacey Borden and Meghan Muntean said the site, too often been pegged as the “WebMD ... |
| 11.07.2012 | ChickRx recruits doctors and helpful sexperts for its health platform | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
ChickRx, a health and wellness startup aimed at w... |
| 28.06.2012 | With New Mobile Apps, Eric Schmidt-Backed HealthTap Brings The House Call Back To Healthcare | Over 80 percent of people seek health-related information online, on everything from insurance to help diagnosing aches and pains. As the world goes mobile, so too does health. Instead of using Google for your health queries or perusing Web... |
| 28.06.2012 | HealthTap unveils micropayment system and doctor chat | The online and mobile health network adds premium features that include private health conversations
Personalized health platform HealthTap is getting a new look, and a few interesting new features. The company that aims to finally get rid ... |
| 15.05.2012 | DoctorsElite Wants To Build A Network To Better Link Up Patients, Specialists And Medical Records | As a culture, we are getting ever-more accustomed to using social networks as our primary hubs for all information, and that trend is leading to the rise of yet more services constructed like social networks to improve accessibility: one of... |
| 14.04.2012 | We Are Our Scores: The Aspirational Self | Editor’s note: Tim Chang is a managing director at Mayfield Fund. This is the third in a three-part series about the Quantified Self movement. Follow Tim on Twitter @timechange.
I left off last time talking about how gamification and the Qu... |
| 08.12.2011 | Twilio, Edmodo, Uber: Bay Area Biztech by the Numbers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s your one-stop, data-driven roundup of deals news around the San Francisco Bay Area in the last few days.
$110 million—The cash price fetched by Jobs2Web, the San Mateo,... |
| 07.12.2011 | 10 startups from mHealth 2011: EnHatch | More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a ser... |
| 07.12.2011 | 10 startups from mHealth 2011: OrganizedWisdom | OrganizedWisdom
The experience of having surgery can be a stressful and sometimes frightening prospect for patients. New York-based OrganizedWisdom‘s program enables physicians to deepen patient understanding of complex surgical procedures ... |
| 07.12.2011 | 10 startups from mHealth 2011: HealthTap | More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a ser... |
