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Case Announces Launch Of Revolution Health Web Site

America Online co-founder Steve Case on Thursday in a webcast announced the launch of RevolutionHealth.com, a comprehensive health care information Web site for consumers sponsored by Revolution Health Group, which Case founded last year, Dow Jones reports (Gerencher, Dow Jones, 4/19). The no-cost Web site will include information on 1,500 medical conditions that users can sort by name or by treatment, as well as a directory of physicians that will include brief reviews written by patients. In addition, users will have the ability to develop their own pages on the Web site to store information and share the information with others. Users also will have the ability to maintain electronic health records on the Web site. Revolution Health in future plans to market on the Web site services such as resolution of disputes with health insurers (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 4/16). Case also announced that Revolution Health has acquired CarePages, a no-cost Web site that allows caregivers to post information about the care they provide. Case said, “We created Revolution Health to make health and health care simpler for everyone, but particularly for busy moms, who often serve as the chief medical officers for their families”