Current owner of Med Scape.

Originally a smoke-and-mirrors creation of [Jeff Arnold].

Then simultaneously took on Micro Soft investment and was bought by Jim Clark's Health Eon.

All of which was acquired by [Marty Wygood] of [Medical Manager], previously of [Merck Medco].

Here's a note I wrote in 2000 about Michael Lewis' [New New Thing] bio of Jim Clark as related to his Health Eon involvement.

• old site gone, so here's a copy of the note:

  • Just read The [New New Thing], and was rather disappointed. Should have been warned by the lack of index. It really just tries to be a character study of Jim Clark, rather than any sort of analysis of what he's created. Has anyone noticed that Net Scape and Health Eon have been puff-companies, driven more by hype than the delivery of value? I did find interesting the discussion about Health Eon buying WebMD. It's basically described as (my summary, not a quote) "they'd made a bunch of sales, but had no product, so we weren't interested; but we knew healthcare was a big enough market that Micro Soft was going to come after it eventually; when we heard Micro Soft was going to buy WebMD we had to jump in" (Micro Soft owns a piece of the combined company).

[Matthew Holt] on WebMD's history and structure (Sept'03). And Oct'03 bit on their revenue shortfall at that time.

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