Healthline

For the bus rapid transit line in Cleveland, see HealthLine.
Healthline Networks, Inc.
Private
Founded 1999
Headquarters San Francisco, USA
Key people
 Dean Stephens, Co-Founder and CEO, Niraj Katwala,
CTO & GM [1]
Products Health information services
Number of employees
 105 (2013)[2]
Slogan Connect to Better Health
Website www.healthline.com

Healthline Networks is a privately owned provider of health information and technology solutions for publishers, advertisers, employers, healthcare providers, and health plans.[3]

Overview

Healthline Networks was founded in 1999 as YourDocto.com, by endocrine specialist Dr. James Norman.[4] In 2005, the company was re-launched as Healthline Networks. Today, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.[2] According to information retrieved from InsideView in 2013, Healthline Networks has over $21 Million in revenue and 105 employees.[2]

Deloitte ranked Healthline Networks as one of the top 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.[5]

Investors in the privately held company include Aetna Ventures, LLC, Comcast Ventures, GE, Investor Growth Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Reed Elsevier Ventures, U.S. News & World Report, and VantagePoint Capital Partners.[6][7]

The company’s product suite consists of health search and navigation products (BodyMaps, HealthLinks, HealthAnswers), including clinical applications of these products (Symptom Search, Treatment Search, Doctor Search, Drug Search).[2] The product suite also includes display, banner and rich media advertising services, and medical reference content.[2]

Healthline.com

Healthline Network’s content website, Healthline.com, is a health information destination site. According to comScore, Healthline.com had over 3.3 million visitors in October 2013 and 7 million page views,[8] and is a significant competitor to WebMD.[4] [9] In 2009, Kim Komando, a technology columnist with USA Today, listed Healthline.com as a top health information website.[10]

In addition to Healthline.com, the company also provides health-related content, tools and services to more than 40 other sites.[11] In 2010, Healthline Networks signed an agreement to provide medical and health-related content and tools to Yahoo Health[11] Other partners include AARP.com and DoctorOz.com.[4] Healthline Networks software also powers Aetna’s patient portal.[12]

External links


References

  1. ↑ "Executive Team". Healthline Networks.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Healthline Networks, Inc.". InsideView.
  3. ↑ "Healthline". CrunchBase.
  4. 1 2 3 Roush, Wade. [, http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/11/30/healthline-battles-webmd-with-personalized-medical-search-tools-and-3d-body-maps/ "Healthline Battles WebMD With Personalized Medical Search Tools, Body Maps"] Check |url= value (help). Xconomy. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Technology Fast 500". Deloitte.
  6. ↑ Gonzalez, Nick. "Healthline Gets $21 Million and Some New Friends". TechCrunch. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
  7. ↑ Arrington, Michael. "Healthline Just Raised Serious Cash". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 22, 2006.
  8. ↑ "Overview Media Dashboard: Healthline.com". comScore.
  9. ↑ Tedeschi, Bob (January 23, 2006). "This Site Knows a Cold Isn’t a Rock Band". The New York Times. Retrieved January 23, 2006.
  10. ↑ Komando, Kim (July 30, 2009). "Online Tools Help Cope With Serious Illness". USA Today. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  11. 1 2 Helft, Miguel (April 1, 2010). "Yahoo Teams Up With Healthline". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2010.
  12. ↑ Kolbasuk McGee, Marianne. "Aetna Taps Healthline for Patient Portal". Information Week. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, January 27, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.