Podcast interview with Dr. Roy Schoenberg, CEO of American Well

American Well provides a platform where consumers can obtain real-time access to physicians via the Web. The company has already signed a deal with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii to offer online...

Harvard Medical School helps launch a wiki

Harvard is helping to build a medical wiki. From The Crimson: The Medpedia Project, which [James P.] Currier aims to launch by the end of the year, is a global effort modeled after Wikipedia, to...

Google Insights for Search + Google Diagnosing= The New Public Health Department?

Google’s new Insights for Search service is designed to provide marketers better information on search terms over time and across geographical areas. According to The New York Times...

InfoMed MD: an automated medical advisor

I’ve been testing out infoMed MD, a new website that provides personalized answers to medical questions based on short questionnaires. The technology isn’t especially novel but I kind of...

Podcast interview with Allison Guimard, CEO of Alijor (transcript)

This is a transcript of my recent podcast interview with Alijor CEO Allison Guimard. David E. Williams:  This is David Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of The Health Business...