AOL Founder Hopes to Build New Giant Among a Bevy of Health Care Web Sites
Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 10:34 amStephen M. Case wants to be America’s doctor, courtesy of the Web.
This week he plans to unveil his new company’s Web site for consumers, RevolutionHealth.com, which has built a growing audience since a test version went online in January.
The site, to be officially introduced on Thursday, is part of Mr. Case’s Revolution Health Group, a company he has bankrolled with a group of others who — like him — are famous for what they used to do for a living, including Carleton S. Fiorina and Colin L. Powell.
Revolution Health’s other medical ventures include a stake in the growing RediClinic chain of retail health clinics operating in some Wal-Marts, Walgreen’s and other stores around the country.
Mr. Case, the America Online founder who oversaw an ill-fated merger with Time Warner before he left in 2003, set up Revolution Health two years later. He says the time is ripe for a dominant health care brand — one that could be as powerful as Starbucks in latte or Nike in fitness. So far he has devoted more than $100 million of his money toward that goal with the RevolutionHealth.com Web site. Click here to read the rest of this article.