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.