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• Revolution Health's Quixotic Attempt to Get Bigger Via Merger

  BNET - 2008-09-15

  Last week, the Washington Post reported that part of Revolution Health is close to merging with Everyday Health, a health-and-wellness site run by New York's Waterfront Media. Should this deal materialize, the motivation seems both obvious and eminently shallow: Bragging rights to the biggest health-info site on the Internet. But...

  Tags: Merger, Health Care, WebMD, Everyday Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton

• Revolution Health Network Passes WebMD and Becomes the #1 Health Property on the Internet

  - 2008-02-08

  WASHINGTON -- Revolution Health today announced that the latest comScore rankings confirm Revolution Health Network is now the largest health property on the Internet. Less than one year after launching, the Revolution Health Network generated 256 million page views in January, enabling it to pass WebMD to become #1 in...

  Tags: health care, Internet, WebMD

• Looking for health info online? WebMD isn't the only option; A host of well-funded upstarts take on category giant as more Americans head to the net for digital diagnoses.(General Electric Co. and HealthLine Systems Inc.)

  - 2007-07-30

  Byline: EMILY TAN Byline: EMILY TAN

  Tags: General Electric Co., health care, WebMD

• Online health wars: Yahoo! gains, WebMD wobbles

  - 2007-01-01

  YAHOO! HEALTH has displaced MSN Health as the No. 2 online health, fitness and nutrition destination for consumers, data from Nielsen/NetRatings show.

  Tags: health care, WebMD, Yahoo! Inc.

• WebMD Health buys Medsite for $41M

  - 2006-09-01

  WEBMD HEALTH has acquired the interactive medical businesses of Medsite for $41 million in cash. The deal is expected to close during the September 2006 quarter. Details were unavailable at press time.

  Tags: health care, WebMD

• About.com taps WebMD for health exec

  - 2006-06-01

  ABOUT.COM upped the ante on its health offering, bringing on Marjorie Martin from archrival WebMD to head About Health (health.about.com).

  Tags: About Inc., health care, WebMD

• Employers turning to e-health records; Aim to create informed consumers.(News)(employee-health)

  - 2006-04-24

  Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK Employers that have been gathering and analyzing claims data from insurers and pharmacy benefit managers for years are beginning to turn the information over to their employees in the hope that this information will empower t Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK ...

  Tags: e-health, electronic health record, EMC Corp., health care, personal health record, WebMD

• MedicaLogic/Medscape to Sell Health Information Portals To WebMD

  - 2001-12-26

  Business Editors and Health/Medical/Technology Writers

  Tags: health care, WebMD

• DCI BUYS SOME HEALTH.(Discovery Communications Inc. acquires The Health Network from Fox Networks Group)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-09-03

  Mike Reynolds and Mike Farrell contributed to this story. Fox Cable Sells THN to Rival for $255M Discovery Communications Inc. has quietly bought The Health Network -- the principal rival of its own Discovery Health Channel --...

  Tags: cable, Discovery Communications Inc., Fox, health care, network, News Corp., WebMD

• Doctoring the Health Channel.(plans for the Health Channel without WebMD)(Brief Article)

  - 2001-01-08

  With WebMD out of the equation, News Corp. has two options The Health Channel could be on life support now that WebMD has pulled out of its network partnership with News Corp. Rolling the channel's 20 million...

  Tags: health care, News Corp., WebMD