In mid-September, WebMD announced that it would acquire Marketing Technology Solutions (MTS), owner of the QualityHealth website and two other helth-centric Internet properties for ~$50M. Now, barely 2 months later, WebMD announced, in a terse press release this morning, that it has backed away from a complete acquisition of MTS and has instead taken a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘WebMD’
Signs of the Times: WebMD Calls off Acquisition
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, advertising, MTS, pharmaceuticals, WebMD on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WebMD on the iPhone
Posted in consumer health, PHR, tagged iPhone, mHealth, WebMD on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last Thursday, WebMD released an iPhone app that is now the third most popular app in the health & wellness section. Pretty impressive popularity considering a modest user rating of three stars. Looking at the comments it is clear that WebMD rushed this product to market. Makes one wonder if it was the slick demo [...]
Perspective on WebMD’s 3rd Qtr Numbers
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, WebMD on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WebMD and Healtheon jointly announced earnings for Q3 (ending Sept. 30th) late this afternoon. Sat in on the conference call and pick-up a few tidbits of information to pass along. Comments will focus on WebMD’s operations. Why do an analysis of WebMD? Quite simply, they are arguably the largest market player in online health. This [...]
Google, Microsoft, Dossia & WebMD: Panel Highlights
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged Continua Alliance, Dossia, interoperability, WebMD on October 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of the treats of this week’s Connected for Health Symposium was the opportunity to moderate a panel entitled: Personal Health Information Platforms and Records: What’s the Nitty-Gritty Situation on the Ground? Obviously, I could not provide notes on this session while concurrently moderating it, but did find the following article at Healthcare IT News [...]
Connected for Health: Day Two
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged adoption, HealthGrades, J&J, WebMD on October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
8:00am, Keynote Regina Herzlinger, Professor @ Harvard and author of Who Killed Healthcare: Very good, thought provoking and at times funny presentation. If you ever get a chance to hear her present, do it! Key points made: Need to move to Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHP). CDHP’s are crippled until we, as a country are able [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Connected for Health: Day One
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, telehealth, tagged Connected for Health, Dossia, funding, Senator Kerry, VCs, venture capital, WebMD on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bouncing from the Health 2.0 event last week to Connected for Health Symposium here in Boston, organized by Partners Healthcare, I’ll be reporting on some of the key presentations. Will also be moderating the afternoon session on the major platform plays, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault and WebMD who is not exactly a platform but certainly [...]
Signs of Times: Healtheon Pulls WebMD Merger off Table
Posted in PHR, tagged acquisition, Healtheon, merger, WebMD on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Back in February of this year, Healtheon and WebMD announced that they would merge. At the time, our analysis was that the new combined entity would become more attractive for as an acquisition target. Well, that is not longer the case as this morning, Healtheon and WebMD made a joint announcement that the merger has [...]
Where’s the $$$? or Economic Meltdown and HIT
Posted in consumer health, RHIO, tagged adoption, economy, HIE, HIT trends, IBM, Patients Like Me, PatientsLikeMe, policy, WebMD on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning’s Wall Street Journal has an article, first page – Section B, highlighting the growing impact of the financial crisis on the IT industry. The enterprise software powerhouse, SAP, shocked investors earlier this week when it warned that it would not meet its 3rd Qtr target, citing slowness in the mid-market. Another tech company, [...]
Thoughts from Across the Pond
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, policy, tagged Cisco, Connected for Health, EU, HIT, WebMD on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The European division of Cisco sponsored the publication of an EU-centric healthcare report, Connected Health. A collection of 10 essays from across Europe and even Dubai, the report provides some interesting concepts and ideas regarding technology (IT) adoption and use. To quote the German Commissioner for Telematics, Rienhold Mainz: “Patient-centred care implies seamless healthcare delivery [...]
