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| 31.10.2025 | Sermo Launches Engagement Manager | Today, Sermo, the fast, frictionless platform for healthcare professional (HCP) engagement, announced the launch of the Engagement Manager—a new on-demand advertising solution that, for the first time ever, gives health-focused companies di... |
| 27.09.2024 | KOLs & DOLs Genuinely Influence HCPs on Social Channels | LiveWorld, Inc. (OTC Markets: LVWD), a leading social-first digital agency in partnership with Sermo, a fast, frictionless physician social platform and leader in healthcare insights, announces key findings from a recent survey has validate... |
| 10.07.2023 | Business Reporter: Sermo's 2023 and Beyond Healthcare Trends Report – An Interactive Guide for Doctors | Insights from 1,220 Doctors - Are You Prepared? LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, July 10, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Sermo, the leading global community of doctors, has unveiled its inaugural Healthcare Tech Trends Report. This comprehensive survey, ... |
| 18.06.2021 | Pharmaceutical Marketing In The New Normal: Improving Communication With Healthcare Providers | Chief Marketing Officer at Sermo. |
| 02.06.2021 | How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds | David Teten Contributor
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| 01.05.2020 | Crowdsourcing for clinical trials and to enhance medical diagnosis | The intent of clinical trials is to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of a drug to receive market approval, yet poor study design may impede this process. Medical professionals and scientific researchers currently write and execute m... |
| 17.02.2020 | Why medical school should start at age 28 | American medicine is at a crossroads as doctors begin to reject a cruel, exhausting educational model and a minefield-ridden practice landscape. Hands wring over the worsening physician shortage, yet little happens to ease physicians’ admin... |
| 12.02.2016 | Consumers aren’t wild about genetic testing — nor are doctors | Only a small number of Americans have undergone genetic testing to detect their or their future children’s disease risks, according to a new STAT-Harvard poll, but a majority say they would be interested in one day taking a genetic test tha... |
| 01.10.2015 | Sermo launches in Spanish, expands to Spain, Mexico | Both the Sermo website and mobile apps now have translation capability so Spanish-speaking users can participate in anglophone conversations, and vice-versa.
“Oftentimes there is a shortage of certain specialties in a particular village or ... |
| 02.02.2015 | Skipta will use $2.5M Series A to add communities to social network of healthcare professionals | Since its founder Theodore Search started Skipta in 2009, it has grown into an international community with groups that include veterinarians, nurse practitioners, certified registered nurse anesthetists, primary care physicians, residents ... |
| 13.01.2015 | MediSafe raises $6M to add more medication management tools, move hq to Boston | On the company’s 2015 agenda are plans to increase its adherence tools and plans to improve the user experience for its apps. It also hopes to use distribution, technology and data partnerships to build marketshare.
In response to the quest... |
| 08.01.2015 | Sermo Vets Raise $10.5M for Healthcare IT Startup par8o | As the healthcare IT space continues heating up, both the patient and doctor experience have been changing in dramatic ways. Thanks to telehealth, people can access physicians through their mobile phones, while health-specific social networ... |
| 26.11.2014 | Here’s a new app for finding nearby people as crazy about something as you are | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Let’s say you like golf (for some reason). How can you easily find fellow golfers in your area?
That was the dilemma facing Christopher... |
| 26.11.2014 | Here’s a new app for finding nearby people as crazy about something as you are | Let’s say you like golf (for some reason). How can you easily find fellow golfers in your area?
That was the dilemma facing Christopher Obereder, CEO and co-founder of Inlope, a mobile-only social network that today joins a growing crowd of... |
| 28.06.2014 | The Rise Of The “Social Professional” Networks | Jon Bischke Contributor
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Back in the mid-2000s, many espoused a theory that there would emerge social networks for different types of people. It sounds ... |
| 03.02.2014 | Social media meets medicine: Vancouver forum | Article content
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| 03.04.2013 | WorldOne Getting $35M to Expand Sermo Physician Network | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A pretty big deal in healthcare IT this morning: WorldOne, a health data and intelligence company based in New York, says it has secured a $35 million funding commitment from ... |
| 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... |
| 05.09.2012 | Doximity, a Facebook for doctors, pulls in $17M in funding | 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!
Doximity is on a roll! Shortly after announcing t... |
| 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,” ... |
| 19.07.2012 | Sermo, After Raising $40M+, Bought by WorldOne For Undisclosed Sum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cambridge, MA-based Sermo, the provider of an online physician community, announced today that it has been acquired by New York-based healthcare insights company WorldOne. The... |
| 06.07.2012 | Facebook-for-doctors network Doximity tackles America’s 5th-leading cause of death | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy ... |
| 06.07.2012 | Facebook-for-doctors network Doximity tackles America’s 5th-leading cause of death | The fifth leading cause of death in America is not cars, cancer, or camping in the woods with buxom beauties while listening to creepy music.
Rather, it’s doctors.
More specifically, medical mistakes and errors resulting from miscommunicati... |
| 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... |
| 21.03.2012 | Sermo vs. Doximity. Can they coexist in fight to build physician-only networks? | Both companies claim to serve the needs of the busy physician eager to connect with colleagues. Both have apps that help doctors solve case problems on the go by reaching out to their colleagues from their mobile devices — iRounds for Doxim... |
| 31.01.2012 | Sometimes it’s best not to jump on the Facebook, Twitter bandwagon | “We have clients who have told us “we need to have a Facebook page” and there are times that we have told them that your social media strategy on that should be not to have one …,” said Cassie Benowitz, account supervisor at Minneapolis-bas... |
| 10.01.2012 | Par8o, from Sermo Founders, Aims to be Patient-Physician Matchmakers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 1/11/12 5:15 pm. See below.] “Sermo has been my baby, my blood and tears,” its former CEO Daniel Palestrant told me in a phone call last week.
So it was pretty shocki... |
| 30.11.2011 | With 30K U.S. Doctors Now On Board, Doximity Is Fast Becoming The LinkedIn For Physicians | As we reported yesterday, the market for mobile health apps is forecasted to quadruple to $400 million by 2016. The health tech space at large, too, is poised for serious growth over the next year, as medical devices and sensors get smarter... |
| 30.11.2011 | Doximity eyes top spot as social network for physicians | The social network for MDs is booming in the mobile health space
Physicians and other medical professionals have a lot to remember and are always craving tools and methods of keeping all of their necessary references close without weighing ... |
| 12.09.2011 | Most pharmas keep Facebook pages; some plan other social media strategies | Pozen has no Facebook page and Cermak said that it’s not yet clear that the company will need one. Cermak notes that doctors prefer Sermo, a social networking site geared toward physicians (Sermo’s CEO sits on Pozen’s digital advisory board... |
| 19.02.2011 | Online physician community Sermo drums up $5 million | Funding roundup | Here’s a roundup of the latest dealflow and investment news:
Online physician community Sermo drums up $5 million
MMV Financial, a specialty finance firm serving venture-backed companies in North America, announced today that it has extende... |
| 18.02.2011 | Sermo Receives $5M in Debt Financing | Sermo, a Cambridge, MA-based online physician community, has received a $5m facility.
MMV Financial, a specialty finance firm serving venture-backed companies in North America, has provided $3.5m to the company.
Sermo intends to use the pro... |
| 09.02.2011 | Pharmaceutical sales jobs will now require smart phones but little travel | Promoted
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| 11.06.2010 | Boston Scientific co-founder Abele on innovation, healthcare reform | Boston Scientific Corp. co-founder John Abele, in the second installment of a lengthy interview, on the early days with Peter Nicholas, his take on demands for increased transparency and his frustration with some of the company’s recent low... |
| 10.06.2010 | MassDevice Q&A: John Abele, Part II | Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) co-founder John Abele told us about the origins of the medical device giant in the first installment of a lengthy chat with MassDevice, detailing its start in the basement of a famed Czech mystic’s lab in ... |
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| 01.03.2010 | Athenahealth partners with online doctor community to gauge sentiment on EMRs | Athenahealth Inc. (NSDQ:ATHN) formed a partnership with Sermo, an online physician’s community to “help gauge and amplify” physician’s opinions on electronic medical records.
The collaboration was announced to coincide with this week’s HIMS... |
| 07.10.2009 | Cleveland’s Within3 evolves (out of social networking?) | “This ends the speculation about will social media take off in health care,” said Lance Hill, president and chief executive officer at Within3. “This is a broad, marquee and highly visible example.”
Within3 is named after the idea that most... |
| 22.07.2009 | Why physicians may never have their own Facebook | Promoted
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| 23.12.2008 | Top 100 Products of 2008 | Over December we’ve published ten top 10 lists of the top products of 2008. We intend to open these lists up for public voting in 2009, to tap into the wisdom of the intelligent crowd that reads our site. But for now, you’ll have to make do... |
| 22.12.2008 | Sermo, Taking a Page from Google, Creates Flu Tracker | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Looks like Cambridge, MA-based startup Sermo is trying to one-up Google, at least when it comes to tracking flu outbreaks. Back in November, Google researchers revealed that f... |
| 19.12.2008 | Top Web Apps for the Real World: Seattle and Boston Startups Make 2008 List | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle and Boston, two of Xconomy’s network cities, have something extra to be proud of today—at least when it comes to Internet startups. Each city contributed two companies... |
| 17.12.2008 | Top 10 Real World Web Apps of 2008 | Here at ReadWriteWeb, we love to talk about the latest and greatest Web 2.0 applications. However, while a lot of these services make our life on the Internet a lot easier, another group of services on the web helps to keep our offline life... |
| 26.11.2008 | MyMedLab: Are You Qualified to Interpret Your Lab Tests? | On Monday we reviewed the state of health 2.0 and it was also the topic of this week’s RWW Live, our live podcast show. At the end of the podcast, I asked all the panelists to list their favorite health 2.0 app (about the 58:30 mark if you ... |
| 23.10.2008 | Bloomberg Subscribers Get Access to Sermo Physician Forum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It seems that Sermo, the exclusive online community for physicians, is finding new ways to monetize its population of members almost as quickly as that population is growing.
... |
| 17.06.2008 | IMedExchange raises $2.5M to build doctor social network | Seattle-based iMedExchange, which is about to launch a social network for doctors, has raised $2.5 million in angel funding, according to John Cook at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Apparently, the site is doctor-approved — of the 40 angel... |
| 19.05.2008 | Google Health Launches – Cautious, Non-Innovative Entry into Health 2.0 | Today Google announced the public availability of Google Health, after initially launching as a closed beta back in February. It is described as “a safe and secure way to collect, store, and manage [your] medical records and health informat... |
| 07.04.2008 | Life-science briefing: Monday, April 7, 2008 | TODAY’S HEADLINES:
Quark Pharma gets $27M for RNAi drugs (release)
TargetRx takes in $9.6M for physician-prescribing data (release)
D-Pharm raises more than $3M for fat-like drugs (release)
Vortex Medical raises $2.3M for medical devices (V... |
| 29.02.2008 | The Health 2.0 glut, and how one startup adapts | The Health 2.0 movement, as I’ve noted before, makes some big claims about the Internet’s power to transform the relationships between patients and doctors, hospitals, insurers and each other. Some of that is undoubtedly true, and there’s a... |
| 05.12.2007 | Talent Wars: How Boston-Area IT Companies Are Dealing With A Severe Staffing Crunch | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The bad news in a jobs study released last week by the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth is that Massachusetts lags every state in the nation save Michigan when i... |
| 02.10.2007 | Sermo CEO Offers Answers to Xconomy Readers’ Questions About Privacy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I don’t know what you did this past weekend, but I spent a lot of mine watching the virtual fur fly in the comments section of my post from last week about Sermo, the password... |
| 18.09.2007 | Silicon Valley East? New England Web 2.0 Firms Attracted $102 Million in Venture Funding in Year’s First Half, Beating Their Bay-Area Counterparts | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Web 2.0 firms based in New England received nearly $102 million in venture capital funding in the year’s first half, the highest total of any region, including perennial leade... |
| 12.09.2007 | Sermo: All Cashed Up and Ready to Grow | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Turns out I was at least partly right back in July when I wrote that something was up at Sermo, the Kendall Square startup that launched its physicians-only online community a... |
| 10.09.2007 | Sermo: Social network for doctors, where Wall Street pays to listen | David Hamilton writes about Sermo, the social network for doctors, over at VentureBeat LifeSciences.
The company has just raised $25 million.
For $100,000 to $500,000 a year, Wall Street firms are also welcome to listen into the discussion ... |
| 10.09.2007 | Sermo links doctors to one another — and to investors | (UPDATED: See below.)
Cambridge, Mass.-based Sermo, an online social network with a twist, offers physicians the opportunity to ask for and offer advice free of charge. The catch: Well-heeled investors can pay to listen in.
Sermo, which jus... |
| 14.07.2007 | Something’s up at Sermo. Maybe CEO Daniel Palestrant Will Tell Us What it Is… | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Something’s up at Sermo. I gather this about 15 minutes into my visit to the Kendall Square startup when CEO Daniel Palestrant excuses himself for an impromptu “three minute” ... |
| 25.01.2007 | Sermo, online physician community, raises $9.5M, grows quickly | Sermo, a Cambridge, Mass.-based online community created for physicians, said it has raised a $9.5 million second round of funding.
The round was led by new investor SoftBank Capital, with additional funds from existing investors Longworth ... |
| - | Sermo vs. Doximity. Can they coexist in fight to build physician-only networks? | A startup founded in 2005 and one started at the end of 2010 are battling it out for the hearts and minds of physicians in their bid to build the largest doctor-only network.
Sermo is the bigger dog, at least for now, and claims to have 125... |
| - | Boston Scientific co-founder Abele on innovation, healthcare reform | Boston Scientific Corp. co-founder John Abele, in the second installment of a lengthy interview, on the early days with Peter Nicholas, his take on demands for increased transparency and his frustration with some of the company’s recent low... |
| - | More Than Half of Physicians Have Seen an Increase in Patients Who Are Unhoused or in Poverty Over the Past Year | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 16, 2021--
One year after COVID-19 triggered a lockdown, economic downturn and devastating global unemployment, a Sermo survey of 2,696 physicians around the world revealed that an increasing number of patient... |
| - | Pharmaceutical sales jobs will now require smart phones but little travel | When Pozen, a small drug development company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, goes to market with its latest drug in 2014, the company fully expects that pharmaceutical representatives as the industry once knew them will be relics of history... |
| - | Digital health startup HealthTap wants to help physicians do virtual house calls | Mobile and digital health startup HealthTap wants to make the old new again.
Back in our less-harried, low healthcare-cost past, doctors could make house calls that gave them the time to really listen to the concerns of patients and engage ... |
| - | Most pharmas keep Facebook pages; some plan other social media strategies | Facebook’s policy change requiring pharmaceutical companies to open their walls to public comments sparked concerns that pharmas would abandon the social networking sites. It hasn’t happened.
Most pharmas that had a Facebook presence kept i... |
| - | MediSafe raises $6M to add more medication management tools, move hq to Boston | MediSafe, an Israeli mobile health company centered on medication management, raised $6 million in a Series A round to support an expansion of the company. Part of that expansion includes a decision to move its headquarters to Boston, accor... |
| - | Skipta will use $2.5M Series A to add communities to social network of healthcare professionals | The ability to reach multiple medical professionals at once is the kind of service for which pharma and medical device companies are prepared to pay good money. Skipta is a health IT company that has evolved from its start as a social netwo... |
| - | Crowdsourcing for clinical trials and to enhance medical diagnosis | Crowdsourcing, representing diverse internet users to achieve a defined objective, is a feature of the digital generation. Wikipedia currently hosts more than 48 million articles in 302 languages. Ride-sharing applications enable mobile cro... |
| - | Morning Read: Are electronic medical records doomed to fail? | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
Is America’s EMR plan doomed to fail? While the idea of every doctor in the country using technology to become a better and more-efficient caregiver is mighty att... |
| - | Sermo launches in Spanish, expands to Spain, Mexico | Physician social network Sermo has put a Spanish-language version of its popular site online and expanded membership to its first two non-English-speaking countries, Mexico and Spain. The New York-based company hopes the move will boost med... |
| - | Why physicians may never have their own Facebook | A recent dust up between the American Medical Association and the physician network Sermo has provided online medical networks with something they haven’t found themselves: purpose.
Scattered from Cleveland and Seattle to Virginia and Massa... |
| - | Sometimes it’s best not to jump on the Facebook, Twitter bandwagon | Healthcare social media is something that many companies are embracing, or at least trying to, but sometimes the prudent thing may be to avoid platforms like Facebook and Twitter.
That’s the advice from a healthcare marketer, the bulk of wh... |
| - | Cleveland’s Within3 evolves (out of social networking?) | CLEVELAND, Ohio — The medical social network Within3 has a new Web site, new customers and new plans to expand.
The company unveiled its redesigned site last week, which highlights Within3’s transformation from creating a LinkedIn for docto... |
