Emerging E-health companies (4/00)
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Start-Up features recently founded companies in the e-health arena: DoctorQuality.com bills itself as the world's first Quality Benefits Management company. e-MEDx Inc. has developed disease management and case and utilization management to improve the quality of health care delivery while controlling its costs. EmpactHealth.com is an electronic health care marketplace designed to strip overhead costs out of the procurement process for both buyers and sellers of medical equipment and supplies. Intelligent Therapeutic Solutions Inc. offers an individualized web-based patient management system linked with artificial intelligence technology to provide therapeutic decision support to patients and physicians. Medassets.com acquired InSource, a group purchasing organization, in September 1999. Its other lead product is MedAssets Exchange, a web marketplace for used medical equipment. VortexMed.com manages vertical portals serving medical specialists in 30 different practice areas.