Revolution Health is a new startup from Steve Case, former CEO of America Online and chairman of AOL Time Warner.

The website is an amalgamation of several startups purchased by Case and aims to offer an information portal about healthcare with medical tools and a database of doctors and clinics which users can rate.

Visiting the site, the main emphasis seems to be on the ability to rate your own physician. It also offers users blogs, forums and other ways of posting their opinions about health problems and health delivery.

The site has information from several insitutions including the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Harvard.

The site is only just launched so the effects of the social networking and user generated content has not kicked in yet. It will be interesting to see whether the site provides professional evidenced based advice on health issues or just ends up being a repository of anecdotal evidence generated from it’s users.

Video of a presentation on Inveneo’s work on telehealth in Uganda.

Link from Tech ‘n’ Health Blog

There’s a new social networking site with a medical slant called Daily Strength.

The idea is to provide a support community for people facing similar life challenges by sharing stories, advice and support.

The site has been started by Doug Hirsch from Yahoo and has a range of health experts who act as advisors to the site.

Via TechCrunch