Late yesterday, Johnson & Johnson announced that they have acquired HealthMedia, an online health & wellness service. HealthMedia positions itself as an online health coaching service and sells this service to employers (eBay, J&J, etc.) and payers (BCBS plans, Aetna, etc.). In their press release, J&J state that HealthMedia is the base for their “Wellness [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Health 2.0’
BIG News: J&J Jumps into Health 2.0 Market with Acquisition
Posted in consumer health, tagged acquisition, Health 2.0, HealthMedia, J&J, Johnson & Johnson, prevention, WebMD, wellness on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Health 2.0 Wrap-up
Posted in PHR, tagged AHIC, Health 2.0, healthcare, policy on October 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Couple of long days and now listening to the wrap-up panel, Looking Ahead – The Business and Society of Health 2.0. One of the panel members, David Lansky, formally of Markle Foundation and now heading up the business healthcare group, Pacific Business Group on Health. Disturbing statement from Lansky was that he worked with Matthew [...]
Health 2.0 – Day 2
Posted in consumer health, PHR, telehealth, tagged 23andMe, Adam Bosworth, athenahealth, genetic testing, Health 2.0, isis-inc., keas, mHealth, Navigenics, sermo on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
8:15am Interview with healthcare SaaS darling athenahealth. CEO Jonathan Bush is being interviewed by Chris Lawton of the Wall St. Journal. Jonathan speaks so fast (he definitely has ADHD) it’s nearly impossible for me to keep up. One comment from Jonathan: Many of the Health 2.0 companies say they are different than Google but put [...]
Health 2.0 Day One
Posted in PHR, tagged consumer health, Google Health, Health 2.0, Microsoft, Yahoo on October 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
8:15am, Intro done, Matthew, founder with Indu of the Health 2.0 conference announce all the countries and cross-section of companies represented. Quite amazing just how many people are here, nearly 900, considering the first Health 2.0 event was just over a year ago. Some very very general comments from Matthew on what Health 2.0 is. [...]
Frisco Bound
Posted in consumer health, tagged financial impact, Health 2.0, healthcare, HIT on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fly out today to the Health 2.0 conference which begins tomorrow. With some 1,000+ attendees, this event will certainly be buzzing, but what we are most interested to learn is what is really working, both pre and post financial bust. One look at the agenda and you can clearly see that there is a tremendous [...]
Everyday a Revolution Health or How 1+1=1.5
Posted in consumer health, tagged Everyday Health, Health 2.0, healthcare content, Revolution Health, WebMD on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Washington Post had a brief article yesterday of a rumor that local Health 2.0 darling, Revolution Health is in merger talks with Everyday Health. Based upon my cursory review of Everyday Health and knowledge of Revolution Health, these two look like a carbon copy of one another – lots of female targeted ads, simple [...]
Good Event Coming Up
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, policy, tagged consumer healthcare, EMR, Health 2.0, PHR on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Health Care Congress will have its 5th annual event this coming April 21-23 in Washington DC. Quite an impressive line-up of speakers (Toby Cosgrove will be there) with sessions targeting all healthcare stakeholders, from heath plans to employers to providers and everything in-between. It’s all there. Heavy on the policy side (after all [...]
