HealthTap brings the Full Spectrum of Doctors’ Knowledge to Mobile Health
Here's some exciting news from HealthTap:
HealthTap brings the Full
Spectrum of Doctors’ Knowledge to Mobile Health
Leading mobile health
platform unveils results of nationwide Top Doctor Competition, and announces
new ways to interact with winning doctors and their insights.
Palo Alto, CA – April 15,
2013 – HealthTap, the only place to immediately connect with 36,000 top U.S.
doctors for free, today announced an even easier, more reliable way to find the
top and best doctor for you.
HealthTap unlocks the full
spectrum of doctor knowledge by providing unparalleled insights into some of
the country’s best medical minds through these doctors’ answers to health
questions, healthy tips, and health related updates and articles. Furthermore,
on HealthTap medical help experts identify the very best doctors, through a
national Top Doctor competition spanning 128 specialties in over 3,100 cities
across the United States.
Today’s announcement of the
winners of the HealthTap 2013 Winter Top Doctor Competition recognizes some of
the world's best and most helpful online and mobile medical experts. Tens of
thousands of doctors competed for the prestigious awards, which include: Top
Doctor, Top Specialist, Most Influential Doctor, and Thought Leader Awards. Doctors
judged peers based on their demonstrated medical knowledge and expertise, and
consumers rated doctors on qualitative factors, such as bedside manner and
personality. Winners from the competition include:
Dr. Michael Sparacino, a Family Medicine doctor from Saint Peter, MN
who won the National Top Doctor Award for helping over 29 million people!
Dr. George Klauber, a Pediatric Urologist from Boston, MA who won
the Thought Leader in Massachusetts Award for guiding the most people to
helpful answers through his comments and peer review.
Dr. James W. Ferguson, a Pediatrician in Waco, TX who won the Top
Pediatrician in the Nation Award for helping the most parents help their
children live healthier happier lives.
Users on HealthTap can
easily see what makes these doctors winners, connect with them, and learn from
them for free. Through the all new HealthTap Spectrum, now a part of all
HealthTap’s apps on mobile devices and online, people can find highly trusted,
doctor-created and rated content, including:
· Concise doctor updates on the latest health
findings
· Daily health tips created by doctors in more
than 100 topics
· Quick, personalized doctor answers to health
questions
· Deep Health posts where doctor share their
opinions and insights
· Transparent doctor-doctor consults and dialogues
“HealthTap is putting care
and trust back into healthcare by placing the doctor and patient relationship
back at the center of the healthcare experience,” says HealthTap Founder and
CEO Ron Gutman. “By giving top doctors a simple way to share their knowledge
and opinions and get recognized by their colleagues for their expertise, and by
users for their bedside manner and care, we’re creating a healthy competition
that motivates the best doctors to stand out and help millions everywhere. In a
world where we expect to get immediate, reliable and deep insights on movies
and restaurants on our mobile devices anytime anywhere, it’s high time we have
an easy way to get the same when it comes to our health and well being. With
the new HealthTap Spectrum we’re leading the way to comprehensive, caring,
trustworthy and high quality mobile health.”
About HealthTap
HealthTap is the best way
to connect with the most trusted health information and doctors. With top-rated
web and mobile apps, HealthTap offers immediate and free access to
personalized, reliable, and trusted health answers and tips from a network of
over 36,000 U.S.-licensed doctors. Sign up today and download HealthTap’s free
app for iPhone, iPad or Android at www.healthtap.com.