They don’t pay their employees on time.

Their employees don’t even get health insurance!

They make every mistake written about in The Mythical Man Month.

Sounds very revolutionary!

Hah! Exactly, preventative care is not exactly pushed by insurance companies. And here is Case, and his slew of hyper employees, pretending their site is original and revolutionary, when every single thing on it has been done before. (The only original thing, is airing internal company fighting on random blogs, and hiring so many people to SELL the site on the intarweb.)

Basically, they are using it to sell insurance. It’s really sad that some people will buy into this farce.

I’m glad to see that most people posting here have some common sense, except for the RH employees who only know buzzwords and are out of touch with the real world. Much like Case.

I’m wondering if they’ll outsource all those “premium service” calls to India. Wouldn’t that be a riot!

Don’t think for a second that the goal of RH is just to be an online source for information. Its goals are much higher than that. I wish them well in their attempt.

What’s needed now is not a single site like RH, but thousands of them, each with detailed information about a disease we’re searching on. Those sites are springing up organically, without a portal like Revolution Health to help them along.

While I’m sure you did, it kind of isn’t enough since it takes more than hard work to make it in this space. Look at all the failed startups in healthcare to understand how difficult the task is, and how completely unoriginal Revolution’s offering is. Their content? Others have it (WebMD has Cleveland Clinic, hospitals across the country have Mayo Clinic content, both are easy to license). You have a few healthcare professionals on staff? Fantastic. How many as a percentage of the entire staff? Where’s the link to your medical advisory board?

I hope Revolution makes it, if for no other reason than because WebMD needs a strong competitor. But stop suggesting it’s something it isn’t.

I’m sure that Steve knows what he’s doing with regards to building this business by hiring people who work in the industry. He doesn’t strike me as someone who is stupid. Sure, he’s got all that “baggage” from AOL, but he’s throwing a lot of cash at something that could potentially be good (or a colossal disaster, one of the two).

If anything this will be a nice competitor to WebMD, which to me kinda sucks for reference material. RH snagged some good partners with Harvard, Cleveland Clinic and Mayo.

You sound like a disgruntled ex-employee. The one who prowls the blogs and posts their vapid opinions. If I’m right, and I strongly suspect I am based on your posts on TechCrunch, what the hell do YOU care about Steve’s copious pocket? You took your share and left! To your point, you were well paid…are you telling me you left out of concern for Steve’s pocket? What a bloody humanitarian thing to do! And I don’t believe that for a moment either.

Oh wait! I get it…I(or the other 300 people) should walk away from the oppurtunity of a career and a chance to help build something great because someone who left the company(of your own free will? doubtful) disgruntled thinks we’re stealing Steve Case’s money by working 12-13 hour days 6 or 7 days a week – missing our family obligations. And I’m supposed to feel remorse for what I get paid in return?

You need to go to http://www.revolutionhealth.com and search for these terms: “dilusional”,”crazy” or “insane”…try “idiot” for good measure.

The real challenge in Healthcare is on the back-end, not the interface. How do you make patient data easily portable, accessible and secure?

Good for you he does not know any better and it is his money you are spending!

Indeed…however Mr. Case WAS smart enough to hire PLENTY of us with years of healthcare experience. In my case, 25 years from a provider, to an administrator to healthcare IT exec.

From the outside, it’s easy to assume that there’s no healthcare experience here and you’d be incorrect. Consider this: no one could build what we’ve built in the time we’ve built it without healthcare experience.