Docquity, a Singapore-based online networking platform for healthcare professionals, has snapped up $44 million in a Series C funding round led by Japanese general trading firm Itochu Corporation. Other investors including iGlobe Partners, Alkemi, Global Brain, KDV and Infocom also participated in the round.
This brings its total funds raised since its inception to $57.5 million.
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Indian healthcare solutions provider HealWell24, together with actress and philanthropist Gul Panag, has launched its latest web platform that provides a space for doctors and patients to connect.
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DocsCampus.com claims to be the first online healthcare network in India. The website allows doctors to build their professional network to share and access knowledge and find school alumni...
MapMyFitness's first big announcement since it was acquired by Under Armour is Activity Feed, a new more in-depth social sharing platform for MapMyFitness users. MapMyFitness general manager Chris Glode told MobiHealthNews that the Activity Feed has been in the works for a while and is not a product of the acquisition.
"Certainly there's a lot of users who are very open about their fitness and...
OneHealth Solutions, a web and mobile platform geared at employee behavior change, announced a $9 million second round of funding from existing investor Lemhi Ventures. The money will go to expanding the service and supporting the added accounts of a number of recently added partners and customers. Since January, the company has inked deals with healthcare company Cenpatico, healthcare management...
When MobiHealthNews reported on the recent Pew findings last week, we quoted Susannah Fox as saying the Long Tail of the app market likely sustains some niche health apps. One such app, the HysterSisters hysterectomy support app, demonstrates how an existing online community can leverage a social health app with a self-tracking component for additional support.
HysterSisters has been around since...
Physician-only social network Sermo's Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Adam Sharp told attendees at the World Health Care Congress here in Washington D.C. that Sermo has no immediate plans to launch a mobile application for its 103,000 users. Sharp said he was impressed by the mobile apps out there for physicians already, though.
"We don't have any near-term strategies on mobile," Sharp...
