A CEO known publicly for the power of smiling was just ousted for...
Ron Gutman, the co-founder and CEO of HealthTap, a venture-backed medical advice startup, was reportedly elbowed out today by his board of directors. The reason, the board said in a letter to...
View ArticleHealthTap Raises $2.35 Million To Help People Manage Their Health
HealthTap this morning announced that it has raised $2.35 million in a convertible note seed financing round led by Mohr Davidow Ventures. The VC firm was joined by a number of notable angel...
View ArticleEric Schmidt, Mayfield Fund Put $11.5M In Online Medical Community HealthTap
HealthTap, an interactive medical community, has raised $11.5 million in Series A Funding led by Mayfield Fund, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors. This brings HealthTap’s...
View ArticleWith New Mobile Apps, Eric Schmidt-Backed HealthTap Brings The House Call...
Over 80 percent of people seek health-related information online, on everything from insurance to help diagnosing aches and pains. As the world goes mobile, so too does health. Instead of using Google...
View ArticleHealthTap Buys Avvo’s Health Business, Looks To Become The Go-To Resource For...
Instead of anxiously searching Google or WebMD, people would rather turn to a real human being for answers to their pressing health questions — preferably one who’s been to school for 10 years. The...
View ArticleHealthTap’s Q&A Service Sees 7.5M Uniques Per Month, With MDs Spending An...
What do you do when you have a health question? You likely either search Google or WebMD, try to call your doctor, or set up an appointment. For most people, the latter two options would be preferable,...
View ArticleHealthTap Lands $24M From Khosla Ventures And Keith Rabois To Take Its “Quora...
Since launching in 2010, HealthTap has been on a mission to bring the proverbial “house call” back to healthcare — virtually speaking, of course. With more than 80 percent of people turning to online...
View ArticleHealthTap Launches RateRx, A Doctor Recommendation System For Drug Treatments
The doctor behind those “doctor-recommended pills” is most likely someone who is paid to tell you that something will work for you whether or not it actually will. That’s why on-demand digital health...
View ArticleHeal Wants To Be The ‘Uber’ For Doctors Making House Calls
These days you can take yourself to the doctor or teleport the doctor to you from a mobile device. Now Heal, a startup out of Los Angeles, wants to take us back to an era of old-fashioned house calls...
View ArticleThe 22 Best Apple Watch Health And Fitness Apps
The Apple Watch, Apple’s first step into the world of wearables, starts shipping to consumers today. The Watch marks an interesting time in the wearable fitness space, in particular. Health and fitness...
View ArticleMobile Medical Consultation Service HealthTap Launches Disaster Service...
It was in the aftermath of the devastating flooding of the Indian city of Chennai that HealthTap first rolled out the services that would become its new HealthTap SOS, which the company launched today...
View ArticleHealthTap makes a bigger push into continuing studies for doctors
HealthTap, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based telehealth startup that says 102,000 doctors now use its platform to connect with patients, has officially snapped up DocPhin, whose app made it easier...
View ArticleRemedy is a Khosla-backed teledoc with A.I. capabilities for the uninsured
There are quite a few telemedicine startups to choose from these days including Doctor on Demand, HealthTap and even some of the older, more established companies like MDLive or American Well but...
View ArticleHey Alexa, does this look infected?
Once you’re done ordering pizza and locking and unlocking your front door, what’s left to do with your Echo? Starting today, HealthTap users will be able to use Amazon’s connected home assistant for...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....