Sermo Forges Agreement with Nature Publishing Group
Xconomy Kendall Square
Back in October I braved a couple of blocks’ worth of rain to visit Sermo, our startup neighbor around the corner, which runs an online community for doctors of the same name.
Served up by Sermo
Blogborygmi
Sermo's founder and CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant, sent me an invitation to dinner last week. At first I thought it was because of the Medgadget brouhaha, but no. I was singled out simply by geography, as part of his larger plan to informally sit and meet with more Sermo users across the country.
Pfizer to network with 30,000 US doctors with Sermo, online doctor website
Ignite Blog
Pfizer has signed an innovative deal with Sermo, the USA's largest online physician community, a move which means that the drugs giant may improve its efficiency when it comes to getting access to doctors.
HEALTH2.0: Sermo, Pfizer: Big Pharma puts big toe in social networking waters
The Health Care Blog
You can’t trust those Brits. I get a super exclusive on the Sermo-Pfizer deal and those damn Brits at the FT break the press embargo. So much for “honour” amongst journalists!
Sermo Bags a Big Pharma Fish
Xconomy Kendall Square
One of the most exciting things about launching Xconomy in such a vibrant tech community as Kendall Square has been the chance to watch our startup neighbors grow, up close and in real time.
Pfizer Strikes Deal With Sermo’s Online Doctor Forum
Pharmalot
Big pharma finally found social networking. For those who aren’t familiar with Sermo, this is an online forum created two years ago by a Boston doc, whose site encourages other docs to swap insights as they chatter with each other online.
Sermo’s twist on social networking
Rough Type
Sermo, the rapidly growing social network for doctors, gets a shot in the arm Monday when it announces a partnership with drug giant Pfizer.
Most Disruptive Changes in Healthcare (According to Sermo)
Healthline
Last month I gave a talk on Health 2.0: Disruptive Changes in Healthcare. I spoke about online communities of physicians and patients, and one of the communities I discussed was Sermo...
The wisdom of crowds — in the works at Sermo!
Wikinomics
To build on a previous post on our blog about Sermo.com — a social networking site for licensed physicians.
Sermo CEO Offers Answers to Xconomy Readers’ Questions About Privacy
Xconomy Kendall Square
I don’t know what you did this past weekend, but I spent a lot of mine watching the virtual fur fly in the comments section of my post from last week about Sermo, the password-protected social network for physicians run by the Kendall Square startup of the same name.
HEALTH2.0: Medgadget & Sermo--a rational analysis
The Health Care Blog
First, a quick summary of the Sermo-Medgadget battle. A week ago Medgadget runs a post claiming that anyone using publicly available (if somewhat obscure) information can impersonate a doctor on Sermo’s site. A huge fuss breaks out.
Sermo: All Cashed Up and Ready to Grow
Xconomy Kendall Square
Turns out I was at least partly right back in July when I wrote that something was up at Sermo, the Kendall Square startup that launched its physicians-only online community a year ago this month.
Q & A with Sermo CEO Daniel Palestrant
Longworth Venture Partners Blog
With the news of Sermo’s $27M in third round funding it was a perfect time to update you on Sermo’s progress and success with some Q&A with Sermo’s CEO and Founder, Daniel Palestrant.
Doctors’ Network Serves Everybody’s Interests
Article Snatch
Regular viewers of the show “House” will know that the title character’s support staff has (supposedly) left; previews for the new season have shown the brilliant doctor discussing diagnoses with a janitor. But if the fictional character knew about a network called Sermo, he’d be able to find all the expert opinions he could want.
Licensing 2.0
State Policy Blog
This site talked recently about the impact social networking (a.k.a. Web 2.0) is having on health. And it’s not alone.
Professional Social Networking — Facebook for “grown ups”
Microsoft Subnet
Last night, I had dinner with a friend who told me that his MBA class had just had their 30th reunion and one of the topics they discussed was that they wanted to develop an online collaboration space where they could maintain their connections.
Ask Your Doctor: Physicians' Thoughts on the FDA and Accelerated Approval
Dr.Miller's Blog
I recently posted a discussion on Accelerated Approval on Sermo to see what other doctors had to say on the topic.
Something's Up at Sermo
Xconomy Kendall Square
Something's up at Sermo. I gather this about 15 minutes into my visit to the Kendall Square startup when CEO Daniel Palestrant excuses himself for an impromptu "three minute" call with his board-as if there is such a thing-leaving me to hang out with Sermo Director of Communications Greg Shenk and several of the staff members' visiting dogs on a comfy orange-and-stain Ikea sofa.
AlphaMD: An Investor's Lens to the Medical World
BioHealth Investor
As an investor, how powerful would you feel if thousands of physicians and medical practitioners were ready to answer any question you had?
Sermo Starting to Kick-Butt and Take Names
The Health Care Blog
Sermo, the physician community site, seems to really be on a roll. I can now tell you what CEO Daniel Palestrant told me a few weeks back.
Business Model for Communities of Practice
Community Mobilization
Sermo.com is a social space for practicing physicians to share personal experiential information with each other. As far as a community of practice model goes it is highly technical and niche to a degree.
Lipitor Causes Nightmares, and Other Medical Secrets: How Much Am I Bid for That Info?
The Complete Patient
You may not like what Sermo Inc. is doing for a living, but you have to give the company credit for cutting to the chase in the medical information arena. It's in the business of "information arbitrage," which it explains as "the opportunity that arises when breaking medical insights intersect with the demand for actionable, market-changing events in healthcare."
Grand Rounds 3.5: A Visual Tour
Health Care Law Blog
It's a fascinating time to watch the evolution of online social interaction these days and discuss its impact on the health care industry. Not long ago we were all using the internet as a static place to obtain information.
Physician collaborative community launched: Will it work?
LexBlog
With the announcement they've received $3 million in VC money, Sermo, a physician online collaborative community was launched today. "Never available before, and never more needed, Sermo enables physicians to consult with hundreds of colleagues, instantly, and deliver better patient care, earlier.
Sermo.com? The Hottest Medical Website
Murphy's Run Blog
This is supposed to be the hottest discussion forum in the medical blogosphere, but it is restricted to doctors. I heard that the stuff they talk about "leaks out", so I am curious if anyone has heard anything about the site.
Should Doctors Be Paid to Give Inside Info to Wall Street?
Patent Baristas
There is now a website that pays doctors to post medical observations, including reports on side effects and off label uses. Needless to say, this has raised some eyebrows.
PHYSICIANS/HEALTH2.0: Sermo AMA interview
The Health Care Blog
This is the transcript of my interview last month with Sermo's Daniel Palestrant on the announcement of the deal between Sermo and the AMA.
A conversation with Sermo
Health Care Vox
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article focusing on Sermo.com, a physician social network that taps into the collective wisdom of doctors to identify trends in medicine before they become widely known.
A most brilliant business model for communities
Mopsos
I just bumped into Sermo's website, which at first sight looks like yet another community space for physicians. There is a slight difference though. On Sermo, there is no cost to physicians to participate. In fact, Sermo also enables physicians to be financially rewarded for their astute observations and clinical insights.
Why Social Media's Perceived Hazards Are Actually An Opportunity for Health Innovation
The Wisdom Blog
An interesting controversy is heating up in blogs like HealthMarketingVox and mainstream media like the Boston Globe as a result of Sermo.com, a new Web site that is making it easy for physicians to identiy and discuss trends in medicine before they become widely known.
Sermo Inc. Upsets Big Pharma
Pharmagossip
A US company that pays doctors to post medical observations on its website, including reports of drug side effects, has quickly incurred the wrath of pharmaceutical makers.
On The One Hand, I Wish It Wasn't Limited To Investment Professionals
Prometheus 6
With its debut two weeks ago, the Sermo site generated debate by prominently featuring postings from several doctors saying that Pfizer Inc.'s cholesterol-fighter Lipitor induces vivid and repeated nightmares in some patients as well as a posting by one doctor that said the diabetes drug Byetta, marketed jointly by Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly Col, was associated with "sudden death" in 50 patients.
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