Healthline Expands Its Medical Advisory Board
SAN FRANCISCO – May 9, 2006 –
Healthline (www.healthline.com),
the leading Internet search engine dedicated to consumer healthcare,
today named three renowned medical professionals to its Medical
Advisory Board: Kenneth Kizer, M.D. M.P.H., John D. Halamka, M.D.,
M.S., and Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., R.N. The addition of these
influential and highly respected medical experts will allow the board
to leverage its industry-wide knowledge and influence as Healthline
expands its market- leading search and navigation technologies that
help empower consumers to become better educated and make more informed
decisions.
Headed by Paul Auerbach, M.D., M.S., the Medical Advisory Board is
involved in numerous oversight and evaluation activities for
Healthline, including making recommendations on the vision and
direction of the company, providing input into Healthline's Medically
Guided SearchSM components, including its taxonomy, navigation, content,
and other features, and guiding the company as it addresses the
tremendous opportunities to improve how patients find, understand and
manage their health information.
Dr. Kizer is currently chief executive officer and chairman of
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading commercial provider of open
source technology for the healthcare industry. Prior to that, he was
founding president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a
Washington, DC-based organization with the mission to improve American
healthcare quality. Dr. Kizer has served in other significant roles in
the industry, including Under-Secretary for Health in the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and Director of the California
Department of Health Services. Dr. Kizer is an honors undergraduate of
Stanford University and medical graduate of UCLA.
Dr. Halamka is Chief Information Officer of the CareGroup Health
System, Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean for Educational
Technology at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the New England
Health Electronic Data Interchange Network, Chair of the Healthcare
Information Technology Standards Panel, Chief Information Officer of
the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, and a practicing emergency
physician. Dr. Halamka received his medical degree from the University
of California, San Francisco and has a master's degree in
bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Conway-Welch has served as Dean of Vanderbilt University's school
of nursing since 1984. Among many other positions, she served on the
National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare from 1998 to
1999, was named by President Reagan to his Commission on the HIV
Epidemic, and is former president of Friends of the National Institutes
of Health, National Institute for Nursing Research. The former director
of the nurse-midwifery graduate program and the chair of the division
of parent-child nursing at the University of Colorado, Dr. Conway-Welch
earned her Ph.D. in nursing from New York University and her M.S.N.
from the Catholic University of America.
"Healthline is extremely grateful to these three top medical
professionals for their interest in its Medical Advisory Board," said
Dr. Auerbach. "These individuals possess extremely relevant
understandings of medicine, technology and healthcare, so will add an
even greater depth of experience and capability to our board, which
currently includes Healthline's founder and a variety of other medical
experts. I look forward to working with them to continuously evaluate
and improve Healthline's capabilities and offerings."
About Healthline
Healthline Networks, Inc. provides the easiest way for consumers and
medical professionals to find, understand and manage healthcare
information, empowering them to make more informed decisions that lead
to better health. Created in collaboration with 1,100 physicians and
medical specialists, Healthline's unique Medically Guided SearchSM
experience is powered by a consumer health taxonomy that encompasses
nearly one million medical terms and synonyms -- the largest of its
kind, and one that translates everyday language and precisely matches
it to complex medical information. Healthline is defining the
HealthWeb, a filtered directory currently consisting of more than
170,000 health-oriented websites and 130 million pages of medical
content. Combined with the company's visual HealthMaps®
and personalization tools, Healthline connects users with the
information, people and resources not readily available through general
search engines or today's online health destinations. Based in San
Francisco, Healthline is backed by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Reed
Elsevier Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., and JHK Investments, LLC.
Company information:
Bill McGee
Senior Vice President, Marketing Services
415-281-3113
bill@healthline.com
Press Contact:
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Healthline Networks
415-281-3110
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