HealthTap is a medical group and technology company delivering telehealth virtual healthcare via the web and health apps. Their customers include health consumers in the United States, health systems, insurance companies, and self-insured employers. The company has received

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’s Innovation Endeavors and Mohr Davidow Ventures. HealthTap allows users to ask health questions online and via mobile devices to a network of U.S. licensed physicians for free. Users are offered the option to immediately connect to, or schedule an appointment with, a physician for a consultation via video conference, phone call, or text chat. HealthTap may be accessed via the web or mobile devices utilizing the company's iPhone,

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and Android apps.

Interactive health

Health information on the service is supplied interactively by a network of nearly 140,000 licensed doctors in good standing (licensed physicians with active disciplinary actions against them are not admitted to the network). HealthTap also provides the opportunity for peer review, which consists of doctors rating each other and self-identifying specializations. The company says its doctor network is present in 170 countries.

Press and expansion

HealthTap has garnered media coverage in publications including

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. HealthTap started its Medical Expert Network with U.S.licensed

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physicians which the company describes as the largest network of interactive, engaged physicians online. In December 2011, the company announced that it had secured $11.5 million in Series A funding, led by The

’s Innovation Endeavors and Mohr Davidow Ventures. In November 2012, they acquired the doctor directory and rating business from

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. In March 2016, HealthTap acquired DocPhin, a startup designed to make finding and reading medical research easier for doctors. In December 2017, the New Zealand Government's Auditor General launched a review into the cancelled implementation of a HealthTap-based system at the Government's Waikato District Health Board. The results of the review were overwhelmingly negative and found, amongst other things, that the platform was not fit for purpose.

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External links

HealthTap website
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