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Health care without active physician participation is no health care at all.
Physicians devote as much as a third of their yearly income to interactions with health plans; no wonder so many are unhappy.
Discussing whether health care reform will impact the quality of care, with Daniel Palestrant, Sermo founder & CEO
That iPhone 3G you’re packing comes with a truly killer app: one guaranteed to hurt your relationship with your doctor if you use it to secretly tape your appointments.
A recent poll conducted by Sermo.com found that only 1 in 10 physicians said Congress should push the current bills through, while nearly two-thirds of physicians said Congress should start over and work on targeted, step-by-step solutions.
26% of physicians responding to a poll on Sermo.com, said they had been forced to close, or were considering closing, their solo practices.
Physicians use this free Web service to discuss treatments and other medical issues anonymously.
Andrew Tolve reports on how independent online forums can provide insights on what physicians and patients are thinking.
It’s going to be hard to keep your eyes off the photo in this piece. But the story of a construction worker’s thumb impaled.
The day after White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's Clintonesque plan to triangulate and divide Republicans and doctors failed a major newspaper published this headline: "Democrats Lose...
The Physicians' Appeal, which was signed by more than 10,000 physicians on Sermo, has been hand-delivered to Senators from every state.
Fox medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel discusses the The Physicians' Appeal, which was signed by more than 10,000 physicians on Sermo.
Editor's note: Dr. Vance Harris is a primary care physician in Redding, California. An earlier version of this commentary was posted on SERMO.com, a private, physicians-only online community.
Sermo Founder Dr. Daniel Palestrant and former AMA President Dr. Nancy Nielsen debate the effectiveness of proposed healthcare reform.
A presidential misstatement spotlights AMA's dilemma in the debate over health care reform. Ines Ferre reports.
Sermo Founder Dr. Daniel Palestrant debuts Sermo survey results on the issue of healthcare reform and physician salaries.
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean and Daniel Palestrant, CEO of SERMO, share their perspectives on healthcare reform.
BusinessWeek and YouNoodle's list of 50 tech startups includes young companies...that are poised for growth.
Big Pharma listens. How social-networking sites created for physicians are becoming a boon for drug manufacturers and investors.
A new doctors-only social networking site is bringing a whole new level of communication to healthcare, reports CNBC's Bertha Coombs.
Anyone paying the slightest attention to the digital world knows of the huge success of social networking sites, with Facebook and MySpace in the starring roles.
“We were hoping for a long-term fix to the SGR, although the likelihood of that is pretty slim,” said Barr.
When jet-setters began flocking to an exclusive social-networking Web site reserved for the rich, they got the attention of an online community’s most valuable ally: advertisers.
On September 20, 2007 Sermo's founder and CEO Dr. Daniel Palestrant stepped up to the podium at the Health 2.0 conference in San Francisco and in less than three minutes summarized how his brainchild, an online community for physicians...
As Facebook and MySpace continue to welcome a wider and wider array of members, some people are turning to more discriminating social sites.
Various groups have created their own special networking sites online. One that's popular with thousands of physicians is called Sermo.
Drug giant Pfizer is signing up with a Cambridge, Mass.-based doctors networking service called "Sermo." What does it do? How does it work? Founder and CEO Daniel Palestrant joins NECN.
Sermo, a Cambridge, Mass.-based company that runs an online community for physicians, has signed its first pharmaceutical client.
The easiest way to find Dr. Kathy Gregory on the Web is by going to YouTube. There, in a newly minted video, the San Francisco obstetrician/gynecologist introduces...
You could hear some interesting things standing by the water cooler in a doctors' lounge.
Pfizer has signed on as the first pharmaceutical client of Sermo, the online community for physicians.
Pfizer will on Monday lead Big Pharma into internet-based social networking, as the world’s biggest drugmaker unveils a collaboration with Sermo, the fast-growing US networking site for doctors.
Site Partnership Aims For Dialogue on Drugs Outside Usual Pitches
US doctors may not have time to be out of the office with colleagues playing golf anymore, but they might be found clicking away online (on a social networking site) instead.
Pfizer Inc. signed an agreement with closely held Sermo Inc. that will allow the world's biggest drug maker to access a networking Web site used by about 31,000 doctors to assess treatments.
Pfizer will on Monday lead Big Pharma into internet-based social networking, as the world’s biggest drug maker unveils a collaboration with Sermo, the fast-growing US networking site for doctors.
A year-old online forum where 30,000 doctors swap medical observations has lined up a partnership with Pfizer Inc. — an alliance that runs counter to the site's founding ideal to give doctors...
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...
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. has struck a partnership deal with Sermo Inc., a social-networking site for licensed physicians, to make the way it reaches doctors more efficient.
Doctors can join 30,000 peers to comment on stories and initiate discussions.
Online health sites are spreading across the country as swiftly as a virus. And Massachusetts investors are not immune, plunging millions this year into the online health care sector.
It is an online community of doctors, an exchange of ideas over treaments, drug interactions and recommendations. Some are paid for their contributions and investors can pay to observe the doctors findings.
Sermo.com, where physicians can tap “the wisdom of crowds” to help them diagnose and treat intractable illnesses, has gotten a $26.7 million infusion of cash, the company said Wednesday.
FDA's device center is assessing whether an online forum for physicians can help with its postmarket surveillance challenges. Sermo, which calls itself the nation's...
A Cambridge-based provider of online physician networking services has closed a $27 million Series C round of funding from two new investors.
When radiation oncologist Michael Tomblyn recently saw a 21-year-old patient whose eye was protruding from its socket, he turned to his fellow physicians for help.
Online polls are increasingly playing foil to traditional marketing research. Just ask Daniel Palestrant, MD.
Heading a hot startup isn't always a bed of roses, says Daniel Palestrant, MD, founder and CEO of Sermo, the online community for physicians. "Somebody asked me what it's like, and I said I'm becoming all my own pet peeves," he chuckled.
An innovative new website is bringing fund managers and their research teams to the table—the operating table.
The American Medical Association is working with a startup company that encourages doctors to swap ideas online and charges investment firms to view postings that could serve as tip-offs to drug side effects and...
The American Medical Association is working with a startup company that encourages doctors to swap ideas online and charges investment firms to view postings that could serve as tip-offs to drug side effects...
The American Medical Association is working with a start-up company that encourages doctors to swap ideas online and charges investment firms to view postings that could serve as tip-offs to drug side effects...
Sermo, an online community with 12,000 members is opening its site to pharmaceutical firms looking for the scoop on how new drugs are viewed and being used by doctors.
The American Medical Association is working with a start-up company that encourages doctors to swap ideas online and charges investment firms to view postings that could serve as tip-offs to drug...
Social networking on the Web has evolved into much more than kids logging onto MySpace. Sermo.com is providing doctors with an online forum -- a sort of virtual hospital cafeteria -- to ask...
In late March, Sermo, an upstart social network for doctors, tried an experiment. It polled member physicians on whether an experimental drug for advanced prostate cancer would...
The vast majority of patient care today takes place on an outpatient basis in small physician offices. Physicians in the last 10 to 15 years have become more isolated...
Despite what you may have seen on Grey's Anatomy or ER, physicians have many other things to do at the hospital besides...
From best practice treatments to early insights into drug reactions, new technology enables physicians...
In late March, Sermo, an upstart social network for doctors, tried an experiment.
CEO says Sermo is the biggest online physician community in the world for doctors. Now doctors have their own online community, where they discuss everything from the latest medical..
A Cambridge company that pays doctors to post medical observations on its website, including reports of drug side effects, has quickly incurred...
Investment from Longworth Venture Partners to fuel growth of unprecedented online community for physicians...
Sermo, a Cambridge-based on-line community for doctors, said today it has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics so it can expand...
Sermo, an online community host for doctors, closed on $3 million in funding from Longworth Venture Partners. Cambridge, Mass.-based Sermo enables physicians to consult...
