WebMD acquired the operating assets of Healthwise, a nonprofit provider of health education content and patient engagement tools. The deal follows another acquisition WebMD made in the patient engagement space in 2020. According to Ann Bilyew, WebMD’s senior vice president of health, the company is now “the indisputable market leader in providing patient education to both providers and payers.”
WebMD Ignite — the company’s division that offers tech solutions to providers and health plans — teamed up with healthcare privacy platform Freshpaint. Through the partnership, WebMD Ignite is seeking to help its customers — which include organizations such as Providence, Trinity Health, Advocate Aurora, VillageMD and Centene — use web tracking technology to grow their businesses while staying clear of data privacy risks.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
WebMD Provider Services struck a partnership with patient communication company Artera (formerly WELL Health) to expand access to patient educational content and medication affordability programs through texting.
Digital health startup Sharecare launched an exclusive partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Arizona. Founded by former WebMD CEO Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz, the app offers activity tracking and coaching for users.
A new survey from WebMD, Medscape and STAT dug deeper into the prevalence of patient bias. Among 822 physician respondents, 59 percent said they'd heard a derogatory remark about their personal characteristics from a patient within the past five years.
As part of the Mayo Clinic First Aid program, users of Alexa-enabled devices can ask for first aid information, such as advice on how to treat a cut.
WebMD's acquisition calls to mind just how much the business of online searches for health information has evolved.
The crowdsourcing consult app will be available to doctors in 245 countries.
Google shared a few more details on its efforts to bring more accurate, reliable medical information online, detailing some of its main sources and partners. In addition to the Mayo Clinic, other key partners on the effort include Lumiata and VoxHealth. To what extent those two companies are involved is not entirely known, other than […]
Thanks in part to digital technology, patients are taking control of their healthcare in a way they never have before, said WebMD CEO David Schlanger. Yet, almost half of Americans have at least one chronic disease, and that number is expected to continue growing. At the Cleveland Clinic’s Patient Experience: Empathy + Innovation Summit today, […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
So you may have heard that WebMD acquired health IT startup Avado — a company that developed a patient portal to help physicians communicate with their patients using messaging and reminders. It is an interesting development for a company that has until recently focused on content. So what other health IT companies is WebMD (Nasdaq: […]
Patient engagement tools have just taken on a new importance for health IT investors, thanks to the WebMD’s (Nasdaq: WBMD) acquisition of health IT company Avado. It’s a significant shift for the company which has, until recently, focused on healthcare content only. Avado’s patient portal is designed to be EMR agnostic. It uses messaging, reminders, and […]
New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan suggests a new standard for online health information: that advice directly from reputable health systems beats third-party reporting coupled with a review, particularly when there is a greater financial motive behind the latter approach. Such a change would mean that health systems, which lost some of its influence for health information before the Internet revolution, would suddenly regain mindshare they lost to the Web and the WebMD's of the world.
WedbMD's consumer portal ranks as the top health site on the Web, and the company’s financials are very healthy. It could be an attractive target for any offline media company that wanted to make a splash in an online category that performed well even during the midst of the recession, suggests paidContent.org.
The Cleveland Clinic has launched a mobile version of its website that will allow smartphone users to search for doctors and access general information about the hospital. The mobile site, m.ClevelandClinic.org, is the latest initiative in a series of Health 2.0 projects the Clinic has rolled out in recent years. The Clinic’s new mobile site […]
