Digital Healthcare and Productivity Features OrganizedWisdom

We're starting to get a lot of traffic today from Matthew Holt's article in Digital Health and Productivity, "MySpace for Healthcare? It's closer than you think."

Even though few people can clearly define Web 2.0, many of its emerging components such as blogs, wikis, video-sharing – social networking activities -- have made millionaires of a whole new breed of geeky entrepreneur. Google paid more than $1.6bn for YouTube. By some accounts FaceBook is valued at over $600 million. And the $580 million News Corp. paid for MySpace looks like a bargain.

Does the social networking trend matter in healthcare? Several new companies are betting the answer is "yes."

Our friends over at Revolution Health, DailyStrength.org and Sermo are also included in the article so we're in good company. 

What's great to see is that each of our respective companies are offering a different approach to social networking and health.  Sermo for example, is the leading community now for physician experts and peer to peer review, while DailyStrength has improved the health forum concept for support, and Revolution seems to be going wide trying to tackle everything from personal health records to health telephone services.  And as the article points out, OrganizedWisdom is creating a community of patient experts and health connectors who are building a knowledgebase of "WisdomCards" and user generated health content that is aligned with evidence-based health content from Healthwise.

The article concludes:

The model is convincing enough that last week Sermo raised a second round of funding of $9.5m, while both OrganizedWisdom and DailyStrength already have raised smaller amounts. It seems that venture capitalists, at least, think social networking in healthcare is well on its way.

We would like to congratulate Sermo on their big news and we look forward to working along with all of these new health 2.0 companies to continue to bring fresh ideas and passion to healthcare and health communities.

Read the complete article here.