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HealthCentral acquires Wellsphere creating largest online health and wellness community

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HealthCentral, the website that collects online condition-specific consumer health and wellness experiences, has acquired Wellsphere, a health technology company, adding nearly four million monthly unique visitors to HealthCentral’s audience.

The acquisition combines HealthCentral’s high-quality, condition-specific interactive experiences, content and audience with Wellsphere’s aggregation of over 1,500 health and wellness bloggers and unique Health Knowledge Engine technology that deciphers highly specific health information. HealthCentral also will leverage Wellsphere’s health community enterprise technology which powers Stanford University’s BeWell@Stanford to deliver valuable health information and wellness tools for Stanford employees. The deal raises HealthCentral’s audience of its owned properties to ten million unique visitors per month, and makes the company the largest organic aggregation of online health and wellness communities.

Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Originally posted on January 29, 2009 @ 11:20 am

Comments

  2. I wonder what this means tp the wellsphere’s community though? I’ve always liked wellsphere and enjoy the community interaction there. I hope nothing much changes with this acquisition and if there are, it doesn’t drive the bloggers and the groups away.

  3. I think it’s great for patients who need additional information about their health and/or condition. It’s great to see patients taking control of their own health and becoming knowledgeable about their own condition and not taking doctors words as gospel! I love it when a patient brings papers off the internet about their condition…it shows they care about getting healthier!

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