Myca is a

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company specializing in

healthcare Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

. It is headquartered in

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, with

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offices in

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History

Myca was founded in 2002 by Nathanial B. Findlay. The company's first product was a mobile

nutrition Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures. Failure to obtain sufficient n ...

platform called MyFoodPhone. MyFoodPhone is a small cell-phone application that provides customers with a full nutrition journal and access to a nutrition professional. Customers take a picture of their meals and send them via MyFoodPhone to be analyzed by a personal nutrition coach or advisor. MyFoodPhone was rebranded as Myca Nutrition in 2007.

Activities

Started in 2007, Myca developed a practice management system that allows physicians to perform remote consultations by using

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instant messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...

, phone, mobile and secure

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. With this platform, patients can schedule either home, clinic or online appointments with a doctor. The Myca platform provides a full billing back-end service that allows doctors to be reimbursed for their remote visits. The Myca Platform is commercialized in the

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under the Hello Health trademark. Hello Health operates under the software as a service business model, so patients sign up online to communicate with their physician.Rowland, Kara. "Wireless wellness: If you've got a phone, you've got a diagnostician", ''

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'', 2008-06-16, p. B1. Myca launched its first Hello Health clinic in July 2008 in

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. Dr. Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH, Dr. Sean Khozin, MD, MPH and Dr. Devlyn Corrigan D.O. were the first Hello Health doctors and operated the Williamsburg clinic. Doctors are highly implicated in the Hello Health product definition as well. The company plan to offer its service elsewhere in the

area

Partnerships

Myca is a gold member of the Wireless Life Science Alliance, founded by

Qualcomm Inc. Qualcomm () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4 ...

, hosted in San Diego, California.

References

* * * *{{cite news , first=Claudette , last=Samson , title=Santé sans file: consulter le docteur par Internet , url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080201/CPSOLEIL/80131196/6711/CPACTUEL03 , work=Le Soleil , date=1 February 2008 , access-date=2008-08-13 , language= fr

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