HealthCare.com joins the online-healthcare stampede, raises $6.1M
(UPDATED with additional information on the fundraising, venture interest in the online healthcare-info sector, and a note of caution about these new ventures.)
You can’t swing a dead cat among venture businesses these days without hitting a new online site devoted to healthcare information of one sort or another. Over the last few months, we’ve seen a parade of major announcements — many of them big on vision but vague on particulars — from the likes of… Continue Reading
The healthcare “revolution” — controlling your records, insurance
A bevy of start-ups are emerging to give people new ways to liberate them from the control of powerful health insurance companies — it’s about time.
Typically, you go to a doctor, and the doctor keeps your records on file and you can’t access them. But now people are demanding more freedom and transparency, and start-ups are responding.
The latest is Revolution Health, the start-up formed several years ago by AOL co-founder Steve Case, but which has… Continue Reading