23andMe: Healing the World through Crowdsourcing
Biotech firm 23andMe used crowdsourcing to collect vast body of data and fuel first-of-a-kind depression study
Healthcare and Wellness
CrowdMed: Solving medical puzzles
CrowdMed: helping patients to get closer the right diagnosis.
PatientsLikeMe – Crowdsourcing patient platform for healthcare
Crowdsourcing platform empowers patients to take a greater role in advancing health
Gym Rat: Crowdsourcing Personal Trainers
Why pay for expensive personal trainers when you can leverage gym rats in your neighborhood? Here's a business idea to use crowdsourcing in the gym industry.
Athenahealth Marketplace – crowdsourcing in health care
In 2013, Athenahealth launched the “More Disruption Please” (MDP) program, a platform that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, clinicians and industry experts to discover new ways to improve healthcare. The MDP Accelerator invests in startups through the MDP program and provides the resources and customer access to help these start-ups scale up and succeed. These start-ups partners with Athenahealth to provide solutions through the Athenahealth Marketplace. Currently the Athenahealth partners provide healthcare solutions in seven major areas, including acquisition and engagement, administrative, billing, care management, efficiency tools, medical records, and provider tools.
PatientsLikeMe: Finding Cures for Chronic Diseases
PatientsLikeMe is an online community network where chronic disease patients are able to find other patients with similar demographics and experiences. This data is shared to help support the search toward better chronic disease treatments.
Glamsquad: Making Over the Beauty Services Industry
Can Glamsquad build a platform of scale in on-demand beauty?
This Chinese Man is Battling for Women’s Fertile Ground
Dayima: Chinese period-tracking app’s painful road to profit
Chunyu Doctor, the largest telemedicine platform in China
Chunyu Doctor (春雨医生) is an online telemedicine platform in China. Among the telemedicine companies in China, it has the largest Internet penetration rate, and it has accumulated more than $100 million in capital. In September 2016, Cycares, the international branch of Chunyu Doctor, completed its series C venture capital fund raising round, raising $50 million, the largest round of venture funding ever achieved in the Chinese telemedicine industry.
A hard pivot: Fitbit repositioning from wearables to healthcare platform
Fitbit announced last week it is planning a transition into becoming an integrated healthcare platform. What does that mean for the wearables company and will it succeed?