MiVitals Can’t Find Pulse For Online Health Records
TechCrunch Apr 21 09Online health records is a rapidly growing segment of the health 2.0 world—Google Health, Microsoft's HealthVault, WebMD, Aetna’s SmartSource (via a partnership with Healthline), and Revolution Health (now part of Waterfront Media), are just a few of the many online platforms that let consumers organize their health records online in a secure portal. In a space where you are competing with prestigious medical institutions and platforms backed by the largest tech companies in the world, there's not much room for the small, bootstrapped startup. Unfortunately, miVitals, an Australia-based startup that provides an online storage platform for consumer health records, will be shutting its doors in mid-May due to lack of funding. Full story...
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