Steve Case’s Health Portal RevolutionHealth launches in the US . Probably little known in Europe - this concept has potential to shake up the healthcare environment significantly and assemble a significant amount of consumers to start a true revolution, turning around healthcare systems not only in the US
Steve Case’s much anticipated online health portal RevolutionHealth (RVH) has launched
recently, but he is quite certain to make a risky move into premium services soon. For all those who may not know Case, he is the co-founder of AOL, has quite a history of successful entrepreneurship one example is the merger beteween TimeWarner and Aol in 2000.
He turned towards healthcare with the idea of using web 2.0 tactics to turn healthcare into a consumer driven environment! Here's the description and characterisitics the revolution movement- click here.
The site starts off free, but eventually begin charging for premium service...Case hopes consumers will eventually pay about $100 a year to subscribe to the site, the WSJ story says.
RVH CEO John Pleasants says the company envisions a day when users have online “health dashboards” that they use to manage their information, similar to the way people manage their finances online. For example, as part of its premium services,
Revolution members will be able to download medical-expense software; on the free site, they’ll be able to shop for health insurance, which the company believes will become more popular as employers increasingly move to a system of health-care-spending allowances for employees to purchase their own coverage
Meanwhile, Case is blogging the launch here, for you to get more information about this interesting consumer movement - which will undoubtadly have an impact on healthcare.
Steve Case’s Health Portal RevolutionHealth launches in the US . Probably little known in Europe - this concept has potential to shake up the healthcare environment significantly and assemble a significant amount of consumers to start a true revolution, turning around healthcare systems not only in the US 
recently, but he is quite certain to make a risky move into premium services soon. For all those who may not know Case, he is the co-founder of AOL, has quite a history of successful entrepreneurship one example is the merger beteween TimeWarner and Aol in 2000.
