CareSeek taps nurse community amid a glut of “me-too” Health 2.0 startups
Like any other Internet craze, Health 2.0 is plagued with a glut of startups that are all doing variations on the same thing — health-related search, social communities, and physician ratings/directories.
So how do startups make it when one site looks much like the next? Over at VentureBeat Life Sciences, we take a look at CareSeek, a doctor-rating and would-be community site that specifically aims to attract nurses and other caregivers — in other words, to… Continue Reading
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 fascinating amount of innovation going on in this area– helped along by a recent torrent of venture capital.
There’s a downside to the movement, though, and that’s a bizarre oversupply of sites that are all doing slight variations… Continue Reading