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| Jul 27, 2026 | Downtown Austin Dental Practice Celebrates 20-Year Milestone with Focus on Trust, Technology, and Personalized Care | Logo Downtown Dental Design, Austin TX
Celebrating 20 Years of Smiles in Downtown Austin
Modern general dentistry in action—Dr. Negar Eslami uses digital tools to guide exams and restorative treatment planning at Downtown Design Dental in A... |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Sleep Divorce Is Rising — Downtown Dental Design in Austin, TX: Sleep Apnea Treatment for Better Health & Relationships | Logo of Downtown Dental Design
Austin dentist Dr. Negar Eslami in the modern, welcoming lobby of Downtown Dental Design
Modern general dentistry in action—Dr. Negar Eslami uses digital tools to guide exams and restorative treatment planning... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Yext Finds 86% of AI Citations Stem from Brand-Controlled Sources | Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), the leading brand visibility platform, today released a landmark study analyzing 6.8 million AI citations – defined as the sources surfaced in AI-generated answers – across ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), and Per... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Dr. Otto J. Placik Makes History as First Chicagoland Plastic Surgeon to Use New Mentor Memory Gel Enhanced Breast Implants for Cosmetic Augmentation | Share
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Renowned board-certified plastic surgeon and widely recognized as the best plastic surgeon in Chicago, Dr. Otto J. Placik has once again taken the lead in advancing aesthetic medicine by becoming the first plas... |
| Jun 12, 2025 | Chatmeter Launches AI Tools for Healthcare Providers, Integrates With Webmd and vitals.com to Elevate Patient Experience and Ensure Compliance | Chatmeter, the leader in multi-location customer intelligence, today launched new tools that enable healthcare providers to improve HIPAA compliance in online patient engagement, detect risks in online feedback and more easily manage their ... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | You now have another reason to use your Apple Watch’s ECG feature | Most of us wear an Apple Watch to track our steps and respond to texts on the go, ignoring the more advanced features — but sometimes, those features could save your life. Rachel Manolo says the Apple Watch helped keep both her and her unbo... |
| Aug 15, 2024 | Medscape Debuts AI-Powered Search Transforming Information Access for Physicians | NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Medscape, a leader in health information services for physicians and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) today announced Medscape AI Search, a free service designed to enhance the efficiency and... |
| Jul 31, 2024 | WebMD Ignite Unveils Two High-Performance Solutions to Supercharge Health System Referral and Revenue Growth | When combined with WebMD Ignite's industry-leading omnichannel activation, the new solutions give health systems a comprehensive approach to target healthcare providers for increasing referral volume, improving provider loyalty and capturin... |
| Apr 8, 2024 | rater8 Secures Funding to Expand Healthcare Reputation Management Solutions | What You Should Know:
– rater8, a healthcare reputation management and patient feedback platform announced today the successful closing of their Series A funding round led by Elsewhere Partners.
– The Series A investment will fuel rater8’s ... |
| Jan 6, 2023 | Dr. Ananthakumar Thillainathan Commended for His Tireless Emergency Room Work | Share
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Patients and peers alike have praised Dr. Ananthakumar Thillainathan, a medical doctor from Stratford, Connecticut, for his tireless and continued work in the emergency room. Commendation for the physician come... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | How Patient Wait Times Affect Customer Satisfaction | Anyone who has ever visited a doctor’s office knows that a long wait can be frustrating and anxiety-inducing, but long patient wait times also affect overall satisfaction with healthcare providers. Worse, they can keep patients from getting... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Delivering operational command centers: improve patient access, throughput and financial stability for health systems | An essential part of providing quality medical care is providing timely care. With limited resources and frequently a shortage of employees, patients start to see their wait times steadily increase leading to patients waiting for the care t... |
| Oct 12, 2017 | Transparency toolmaker Vitals claims MedHelp’s patient-to-patient network in acquisition | Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based Vitals, maker of online healthcare transparency resources for patients, has acquired MedHelp’s online community business for an undisclosed sum. Vitals plans to merge its consumer-focused websites with MedHelp’s ... |
| Mar 3, 2017 | Study: Millennials Have A High-Degree of Trust When It Comes to Attitudes About Healthcare | Millennials have a high-degree of trust when it comes to attitudes about health care, while Gen Xers are the most skeptical, according to national survey released by Vitals. Separated by decades, generations are often defined by researchers... |
| Oct 24, 2016 | Could incentives to use price transparency tools spur wider adoption? | Users select a procedure and based on their plan and address are given a series of options for in-network physicians and can also view ratings for those physicians. In a use case Graybill highlighted, a New Hampshire employer using the Vita... |
| Mar 8, 2016 | Health care quality measures should matter to patients | Defining and measuring quality in health care isn’t easy. New yardsticks from the Core Quality Measurement Collaborative are a step in the right direction. These new measures cover seven broad areas of medicine: primary care, cardiology, di... |
| Dec 10, 2015 | Healthcare transparency company Vitals raises $41.8 million | “We believe Vitals’ model of engaging and incentivizing consumers to shop for health care can produce truly compelling results and ROI for its customers,” T.J. Carella, global head of healthcare investing in Goldman’s Merchant Banking Divis... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Vitals raises $41M for physician rating, cost comparison offering | Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based physician rating site Vitals has raised $41 million from the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. This brings the company's total funding to at least $86 million.
Vitals, which was founded in 2007, initial... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Vitals Secures $41M in Funding | Vitals, a Lyndhurst, N.J.-based provider of health care price transparency and consumer engagement solutions, secured $41m in funding.
Backers included the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs and existing investors.
The company inten... |
| May 22, 2015 | Vitals’ word analysis for 5k patient reviews of doctors reveals time as top concern (Infographic) | I think the biggest weakness of this analysis is the lack of context and it’s difficult to draw strong conclusions. The only one that seems safe to draw is that time caries a lot of weight and can influence the choices people make about the... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Hunting for Value in Health Care | But shifting cost responsibility means shopping matters more. Nearly one in three employers will only offer HDHPs in 2015, up from 22 percent in 2014. On the government exchange, silver plans – the most popular plan type – carry a sizable d... |
| Mar 10, 2015 | Vitals names new CEO | Vitals, which provides pricing transparency and reviews of physicians, named Heyward Donigan as its new CEO, replacing Mitch Rothschild, while appointing former Priceline Group CEO Jeffrey Boyd to adviser and board director.
Donigan was pre... |
| Feb 10, 2015 | Doctor-patient relationship status: “It’s complicated” | Granted, Valentine’s Day isn’t usually about celebrating patient-doctor relationships, it is interesting to look at what qualities and factors leave a patient more or less satisfied with the connection. Turns out, it’s mostly less.
Accordin... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | Fighting for patients by battling their bad, inaccurate hospital bills | The idea stemmed from the steady march toward higher-deductible health plans for employees – being asked to shoulder more of the cost meant far more interaction with the opaque payment practices, according to Palm.
“As benefits became less ... |
| Oct 28, 2014 | Vitals acquires price transparency company Compass Healthcare Advisers | Physician rating platform Vitals has acquired price transparency service Compass Healthcare Advisers. This acquisition will combine Vitals' rating system with Compass Healthcare Advisers' price transparency system so that consumers can cons... |
| Oct 22, 2014 | PokitDok adds heft to price transparency tools with national index, payment scheduler | Accordingly, PokitDok’s Compute will be available for developers to create programs that compare average same-day cash, reimbursed medicare, reimbursed insurance, or all three across a network of 4 million providers.
In addition, PokitDok i... |
| May 20, 2014 | Docs get Yelped! 1 in 4 patients now read online physician reviews | Doctors have always had a love/hate relationship with the Internet, and some bristle at the fact that many patients now shop for caregivers in the same way they shop for restaurants and plumbers: using online review sites.
A recent study by... |
| Mar 31, 2014 | Microsoft Adds Data About 150M New Entities To Bing | Microsoft today announced that it has added data about 150 million new entities to Bing’s entity engine — the company’s rough equivalent to Google’s Knowledge Graph. Over the course of the last few months, Microsoft said today, it has added... |
| Jan 9, 2014 | Vitals CEO flags up 5 consumer healthcare trends that could impact digital health in 2014 | Ratings websites are positioned to have more influence on physician choices: If these websites are to have a greater influence on these choices, it will become even more critical for these websites to generate enough information so users ca... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Team reducing wait times closes $800K seed round and new PPO partnership | MultiPlan has contracts with 900,000 healthcare providers across the U.S. Maheshwari said the deal gives it access to those providers and health plans to expand the channels its scheduling tool can be accessed. It is currently available in ... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Power to the patients: Doc appointment and review website Vitals raises $22M | In a phone interview with MedCity News, Vitals CEO Mitch Rothschild said the company, which employs 110, would use the funding to build services and grow its staff by 25 percent to 30 percent — across data and product support and engineerin... |
| Jun 18, 2013 | Vitals Raises $22M in Series C Funding | Vitals, a New York-based provider of a solution for consumers to find the right doctors and understand their care options and costs before their appointment, raised $22m in Series C funding.
Backers include Piper Jaffray Merchant Banking, C... |
| May 31, 2013 | A message for docs: Embrace (don’t fear) online patient reviews | Sites where patients review and rate their physicians have in the past seemed to get a bad rap. But as patients look more at their healthcare choices the way they do at other purchases, the value of these sites, to some, is becoming increas... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | Blueprint Health’s demo day includes pitches from surgeons, healthcare administrators | A physician search engine for patients who can make appointments through the website. It is promoted to physicians who want to increase their online profile to build their practices.
Experience level: The company was launched in 2009. CEO P... |
| Mar 27, 2013 | Reason for an e-visit? Average patient waits over 20 minutes at a doctor’s office | Logic would dictate that as healthcare moves toward more of a consumer-empowered, retail model, the convenience factor will become increasingly important in how patients choose physicians.
“As the supply of qualified doctors remains unchang... |
| Mar 15, 2013 | How a startup’s scheduling tool is helping providers coordinate care and increase patient touchpoints | To look at its website, you might make mistake HealthPost for a consumer-facing website focused on helping people find and book appointments with specialty and primary care physicians in the Houston, Texas, region. But there’s more to this ... |
| Nov 7, 2012 | Dealing with the Growing Power of “Medical Googlers” | What can physicians do, and how can digital healthcare innovation help them? It’s estimated that two thirds of patients now want doctors to recommend reliable websites to them. Doctors should be able to do more than that, and digital techno... |
| Oct 11, 2012 | BetterDoctor’s Ad-Free Physician Search Tool Goes Nationwide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Every year, 70 million people in the United States set out to find a new doctor. It may be because they’ve moved or switched jobs (and hence insurers), or because they’ve gott... |
| Jul 24, 2012 | Startup News: Shop ‘Local’ Edition | (flickr.com/nataliemaynor)
Shop ‘til you drop Shopkick—a location-based shopping app which rewards shoppers for walking into stores and interacting with products—has just announced a partnership with Macy’s. As of last week, customers at Ma... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | Start me up: How the Affordable Care Act will stimulate new industries | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The past decade belonged to the rise of social ne... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | Start me up: How the Affordable Care Act will stimulate new industries | The past decade belonged to the rise of social networking. Now, with the passage of the Affordable Care Act, this is the decade for healthcare entrepreneurs.
I see four fundamental ways healthcare reform will not just ripple through, but ro... |
| May 4, 2010 | Insider Pages’s new Doctor Finder lets patients review medical specialists | At some point you have to find and go to a doctor. Right now you can look for doctors online, but often you get no insight into the doctor’s practice or their personality. Insider Pages, a place people go to post and read reviews on local b... |
| May 4, 2010 | Finding the Right Doctor Made Easier: Insider Pages Launches Doctor Finder | Insider Pages, which was acquired by CitySearch in 2007, just announced the launch of its new Doctor Finder tool. While there are already a few doctor review sites available on the Internet, most people in the U.S. still mostly base their c... |
| May 4, 2010 | Insider Pages’s new Doctor Finder lets patients review medical specialists | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
At some point you have to find and go to a doctor... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | Will Health 2.0 startups usher in consumer-driven healthcare? | With the Health 2.0 conference taking place in San Francisco this week and President Obama’s bruised but not yet beaten healthcare reform bill still awaiting its fate on Capitol Hill, it’s a good time to look at how tech startups in the hea... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Online doctor reviews and how patients are using them | Through a growing number of business and healthcare review websites, patients are speaking openly about their healthcare experiences, and in a candid manner. From the best of experiences to the worst, your patients have a voice online…and... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Health 2.0 Conference Review | Editor’s note: this week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego, CA. The following is a review of the event, by Bill Allman from HealthCentral.com.
Anyone who struggles with healthcare in America and
thats probably just about ev... |
| Feb 23, 2008 | Comment of the Day: Health 2.0 Web Apps | Today’s winning comment comes from our post Top Health 2.0 Web Apps. At the end of that post we asked for your suggestions of innovative, potentially ground-breaking web apps that will change how healthcare is done. One came from Dr. Anri K... |
| Castlight Health IPO draws increased attention to healthcare price transparency | Castlight Health’s (NYSE: CSLT) high profile debut has generated a lot of attention on the issue of how to make consumers better shoppers for healthcare services by increasing cost management and healthcare price transparency tools.
The shi... |
| Fighting for patients by battling their bad, inaccurate hospital bills | Just about anyone who’s seen a healthcare bill knows that the process is, at a minimum, confusing. With the seemingly endless back-and-fourth between insurance and the provider on arbitrary pricing, even the savviest patient has difficulty ... |
| A message for docs: Embrace (don’t fear) online patient reviews | Sites where patients review and rate their physicians have in the past seemed to get a bad rap. But as patients look more at their healthcare choices the way they do at other purchases, the value of these sites, to some, is becoming increas... |
| Reason for an e-visit? Average patient waits over 20 minutes at a doctor’s office | The average U.S. patient spends about 20 minutes in the waiting room at a doctor’s office; that’s more time than they’ll probably spend with the doctor.
In a new analysis, doctor review site Vitals.com compiled patient-reported wait times f... |
| Team reducing wait times closes $800K seed round and new PPO partnership | Update In a move that underscores the demand for faster and easier access to physicians, online doctor appointment scheduling provider DocASAP has inked a deal with a strategic partner. Its agreement with the preferred provider organization... |
| Blueprint Health’s demo day includes pitches from surgeons, healthcare administrators | Startup pitches from healthcare accelerator Blueprint Health’s third class of graduates reflected a polish and hum of professionals from healthcare and complementary industries who have been doing this for a while. The diversity and innovat... |
| Vitals CEO flags up 5 consumer healthcare trends that could impact digital health in 2014 | Mitch Rothschild, the CEO of online physician appointment and ratings website Vitals, sees 2014 as a mix of positive and negative consumer healthcare trends that could play to the strengths of digital health companies. As provisions of the ... |
| Healthcare transparency company Vitals raises $41.8 million | MDX Medical, parent company of consumer-facing healthcare transparency and physician-rating service Vitals, has raised about $41.8 million in new capital, according to a regulatory filing.
The Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based company, which also... |
| Power to the patients: Doc appointment and review website Vitals raises $22M | Whether you call it the influence of the hospitality industry or the consumerization of health care (or both!), health IT companies with tools providing more price transparency for healthcare decisions see a growing consumer base. It’s only... |
| Online doctor reviews and how patients are using them | This entry is from the Healthcare Entrepreneur, a blog by Vantage Clinical Solutions, a health-care management consulting firm based in Oregon and Colorado.
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| Delivering operational command centers: improve patient access, throughput and financial stability for health systems | The healthcare industry has grown significantly in the last several years and the number of patients seeking emergency room and other medical services continues to grow. An increase in patients typically results in increased patient wait ti... |
| PokitDok adds heft to price transparency tools with national index, payment scheduler | Silicon Valley startup PokitDok today unveiled a host of new tools aimed at furthering healthcare price transparency, including a national price index, along with software that lets users both schedule and pay for treatments.
Users of the c... |
| Could incentives to use price transparency tools spur wider adoption? | Source: Vitals SmartShopper
The interest in creating price transparency in healthcare as a way to get consumers to make shrewder medical choices has found widespread support from Castlight Health to employer wellness programs. But with the ... |
| How a startup’s scheduling tool is helping providers coordinate care and increase patient touchpoints | To look at its website, you might make mistake HealthPost for a consumer-facing website focused on helping people find and book appointments with specialty and primary care physicians in the Houston, Texas, region. But there’s more to this ... |
| How Patient Wait Times Affect Customer Satisfaction | Anyone who has ever visited a doctor’s office knows that a long wait can be frustrating and anxiety-inducing, but long patient wait times also affect overall satisfaction with healthcare providers. Worse, they can keep patients from getting... |
| Vitals’ word analysis for 5k patient reviews of doctors reveals time as top concern (Infographic) | The patient experience has become a high priority for hospitals and physicians. Websites providing for patient reviews of doctors and rating their treatment have become a pretty common part of physician scheduling websites. A word analysis ... |
| Dealing with the Growing Power of “Medical Googlers” | The increased use of the internet by healthcare consumers has led to at least two types of medical conversations ironically illustrated by two different online features sharing a name: the “DocTalk” here, in which Arizona kidney specialists... |
| Doctor-patient relationship status: “It’s complicated” | Granted, Valentine’s Day isn’t usually about celebrating patient-doctor relationships, it is interesting to look at what qualities and factors leave a patient more or less satisfied with the connection. Turns out, it’s mostly less.
Accordin... |
| Vitals names new CEO | Vitals, which provides pricing transparency and reviews of physicians, named Heyward Donigan as its new CEO, replacing Mitch Rothschild, while appointing former Priceline Group CEO Jeffrey Boyd to adviser and board director.
Donigan was pre... |
