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Patients sitting in a physician waiting room
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:49 am September 27, 2024
PatientPoint, a patient engagement company, announced a partnership with MyHealthTeam, a social network company.  The partnership aims to provide patients in more than 35,000 PatientPoint locations the chance to connect with and get support from other people who have the same chronic health problems. PatientPoint's waiting room and exam room screens feature messages that touts  MyHealthTeam's...
By  Dave Muoio 01:46 pm September 24, 2019
New York City startup Voro has raised $2.5 million in seed funding for its “health care social network.” Floodgate led the round, which also included top names from Techstars, Flatiron Health, Tilt, Clover Health, Surion, Teamworthy Ventures, AVG Basecamp Fund, Ride Ventures, OneOncology and others. WHAT THEY DO Voro’s platform looks to inform patients’ care decisions by providing them with...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:51 pm November 28, 2017
Facebook is ramping up both its human response efforts for suicide threats or high-risk postings, and its use of artificial intelligence to identify such risks, the company wrote in a new blog post yesterday. "Over the last month, we’ve worked with first responders on over 100 wellness checks based on reports we received via our proactive detection efforts," VP of Product Management Guy Rosen...
By  Jonah Comstock 12:36 pm April 10, 2013
Only four months into 2013, we've already seen several big moves from companies presenting as "health social networks." In late January, Audax Health raised $21 million for its social network Zensey, and announced a partnership with Cigna. In February, employee wellness program Keas announced a new product that signaled a pivot into the health social network sphere. Last week, OneHealth raised $9...