Companies from Health 2.0

October 4, 2007 by George Van Antwerp 3 Comments

I thought it was interesting to catalog the companies that were at Matthew Holt’s Health 2.0 conference. Many of which I was not familiar with.

MedHelp.org (interesting site which offers Q&A by disease topic with MDs and nurses)

ThinkHealth (medical management software)

Health Evolution Partners (a private equity firm)

Medstory (intelligent search for health)

Healia (health search engine)

Healthline Networks (health search engine)

WeGoHealth (disease specific communities)

Patients Like Me (patients sharing information with other patients)

Daily Strength (support groups)

Organized Wisdom (MD handcrafted search results)

Inspire (health and wellnes support networks)

DiabetesMine (site all about diabetes)

Enhanced Medical Decisions (uses natural language to look at drug interactions)

HealthEquity (health savings account software)

DNADirect (source for genetic testing)

Within3 (social networking tool for physicians)

Vimo (comparison shopping for healthcare)

Careseek (sharing information about physicians)

Health Hero – home health monitoring device

Additionally, John Sharp mentions a few other companies in his blog including:

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3 Responses to “Companies from Health 2.0”

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    Ed Madara Reply October 6, 2007 at 1:56 pm

    Wow. Quite a number of for-profit support group communities! Tis a shame that the real self-help support group community leaders don’t have travel or advertising budgets to make such conferences. But that’s been the case for the last 25 years of their pioneering efforts online.

    – Ed

    “My years as a medical practitioner, as well as my own first-hand experience, have taught me how important self-help groups are in assisting their members in dealing with problems, stress, hardship and pain… the benefits of mutual aid are experienced by millions of people who turn to others with a similar problem to attempt to deal with their isolation, powerlessness, alienation, and the awful feeling that nobody understands… Health and human service providers are learning that they can indeed provide a superior service when they help their patients and clients find appropriate peer support.”
    – former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD

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    Matthew Holt Reply October 6, 2007 at 1:33 am

    George

    Thanks for the shout out–Please note that Health2.0 conference is not my solo production but a joint venture with Indu Subaiya MD! Thanks!

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    AmyT of www.diabetesmine.com Reply October 5, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Thanks for the list, George. Would you mind adding http://www.diabetesmine.com to your blogroll?

    Best,
    AmyT

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