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Xconomy Kendall Square
Sermo Forges Agreement with Nature Publishing Group. Back in October I braved a couple of blocks’ worth of rain to visit Sermo, our startup neighbor around the corner, which runs an online community for doctors of the same name...
Blogborygmi
Served up by Sermo. Sermo's founder and CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant, sent me an invitation to dinner last week. At first I thought it was because of the Medgadget brouhaha, but no. I was singled out simply by geography, as part of his larger plan to informally sit and meet with more Sermo users across the country...
Ignite Blog
Pfizer to network with 30,000 US doctors with Sermo, online doctor website. Pfizer has signed an innovative deal with Sermo, the USA's largest online physician community, a move which means that the drugs giant may improve its efficiency when it comes to getting access to doctors...
The Health Care Blog
HEALTH2.0: Sermo, Pfizer: Big Pharma puts big toe in social networking waters. You can’t trust those Brits. I get a super exclusive on the Sermo-Pfizer deal and those damn Brits at the FT break the press embargo. So much for “honour” amongst journalists!...
Xconomy Kendall Square
Sermo Bags a Big Pharma Fish. One of the most exciting things about launching Xconomy in such a vibrant tech community as Kendall Square has been the chance to watch our startup neighbors grow, up close and in real time...
Pharmalot
Pfizer Strikes Deal With Sermo’s Online Doctor Forum.Big pharma finally found social networking. For those who aren’t familiar with Sermo, this is an online forum created two years ago by a Boston doc, whose site encourages other docs to swap insights as they chatter with each other online...
Rough Type
Sermo’s twist on social networking. Sermo, the rapidly growing social network for doctors, gets a shot in the arm Monday when it announces a partnership with drug giant Pfizer...
Healthline
Most Disruptive Changes in Healthcare (According to Sermo). Last month I gave a talk on Health 2.0: Disruptive Changes in Healthcare. I spoke about online communities of physicians and patients, and one of the communities I discussed was Sermo...
Wikinomics
The wisdom of crowds — in the works at Sermo! To build on a previous post on our blog about Sermo.com — a social networking site for licensed physicians...
Xconomy Kendall Square
Sermo CEO Offers Answers to Xconomy Readers’ Questions About Privacy. I don’t know what you did this past weekend, but I spent a lot of mine watching the virtual fur fly in the comments section of my post from last week about Sermo, the password-protected social network for physicians run by the Kendall Square startup of the same name...
The Health Care Blog
HEALTH2.0: Medgadget & Sermo--a rational analysis. First, a quick summary of the Sermo-Medgadget battle. A week ago Medgadget runs a post claiming that anyone using publicly available (if somewhat obscure) information can impersonate a doctor on Sermo’s site. A huge fuss breaks out...
Xconomy Kendall Square
Sermo: All Cashed Up and Ready to Grow. Turns out I was at least partly right back in July when I wrote that something was up at Sermo, the Kendall Square startup that launched its physicians-only online community a year ago this month...
Longworth Venture Partners Blog
Q & A with Sermo CEO Daniel Palestrant. With the news of Sermo’s $27M in third round funding it was a perfect time to update you on Sermo’s progress and success with some Q&A with Sermo’s CEO and Founder, Daniel Palestrant...
Article Snatch
Doctors’ Network Serves Everybody’s Interests. Regular viewers of the show “House” will know that the title character’s support staff has (supposedly) left; previews for the new season have shown the brilliant doctor discussing diagnoses with a janitor. But if the fictional character knew about a network called Sermo, he’d be able to find all the expert opinions he could want...
State Policy Blog
Licensing 2.0. This site talked recently about the impact social networking (a.k.a. Web 2.0) is having on health. And it’s not alone...
Microsoft Subnet
Professional Social Networking — Facebook for “grown ups”. Last night, I had dinner with a friend who told me that his MBA class had just had their 30th reunion and one of the topics they discussed was that they wanted to develop an online collaboration space where they could maintain their connections...
Dr.Miller's Blog
Ask Your Doctor: Physicians' Thoughts on the FDA and Accelerated Approval. I recently posted a discussion on Accelerated Approval on Sermo to see what other doctors had to say on the topic...
Xconomy Kendall Square
Something's Up at Sermo. Something's up at Sermo. I gather this about 15 minutes into my visit to the Kendall Square startup when CEO Daniel Palestrant excuses himself for an impromptu "three minute" call with his board-as if there is such a thing-leaving me to hang out with Sermo Director of Communications Greg Shenk and several of the staff members' visiting dogs on a comfy orange-and-stain Ikea sofa...
BioHealth Investor
AlphaMD: An Investor's Lens to the Medical World. As an investor, how powerful would you feel if thousands of physicians and medical practitioners were ready to answer any question you had?...
The Health Care Blog
Sermo Starting to Kick-Butt and Take Names. Sermo, the physician community site, seems to really be on a roll. I can now tell you what CEO Daniel Palestrant told me a few weeks back...
Community Mobilization
Business Model for Communities of Practice. Sermo.com is a social space for practicing physicians to share personal experiential information with each other. As far as a community of practice model goes it is highly technical and niche to a degree...
The Complete Patient
Lipitor Causes Nightmares, and Other Medical Secrets: How Much Am I Bid for That Info?. You may not like what Sermo Inc. is doing for a living, but you have to give the company credit for cutting to the chase in the medical information arena. It's in the business of "information arbitrage," which it explains as "the opportunity that arises when breaking medical insights intersect with the demand for actionable, market-changing events in healthcare."...
Health Care Law Blog
Grand Rounds 3.5: A Visual Tour. It's a fascinating time to watch the evolution of online social interaction these days and discuss its impact on the health care industry. Not long ago we were all using the internet as a static place to obtain information...
LexBlog
Physician collaborative community launched: Will it work?. With the announcement they've received $3 million in VC money, Sermo, a physician online collaborative community was launched today. "Never available before, and never more needed, Sermo enables physicians to consult with hundreds of colleagues, instantly, and deliver better patient care, earlier...
Murphy's Run Blog
Sermo.com? The Hottest Medical Website. This is supposed to be the hottest discussion forum in the medical blogosphere, but it is restricted to doctors. I heard that the stuff they talk about "leaks out", so I am curious if anyone has heard anything about the site...
Patent Baristas
Should Doctors Be Paid to Give Inside Info to Wall Street?. There is now a website that pays doctors to post medical observations, including reports on side effects and off label uses. Needless to say, this has raised some eyebrows...
The Health Care Blog
PHYSICIANS/HEALTH2.0: Sermo AMA interview. This is the transcript of my interview last month with Sermo's Daniel Palestrant on the announcement of the deal between Sermo and the AMA...
Health Care Vox
A conversation with Sermo. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article focusing on Sermo.com, a physician social network that taps into the collective wisdom of doctors to identify trends in medicine before they become widely known...
Mopsos
A most brilliant business model for communities. I just bumped into Sermo's website, which at first sight looks like yet another community space for physicians. There is a slight difference though. On Sermo, there is no cost to physicians to participate. In fact, Sermo also enables physicians to be financially rewarded for their astute observations and clinical insights...
The Wisdom Blog
Why Social Media's Perceived Hazards Are Actually An Opportunity for Health Innovation. An interesting controversy is heating up in blogs like HealthMarketingVox and mainstream media like the Boston Globe as a result of Sermo.com, a new Web site that is making it easy for physicians to identiy and discuss trends in medicine before they become widely known...
Pharmagossip
Sermo Inc. Upsets Big Pharma. A US company that pays doctors to post medical observations on its website, including reports of drug side effects, has quickly incurred the wrath of pharmaceutical makers...
Prometheus 6
On The One Hand, I Wish It Wasn't Limited To Investment Professionals. With its debut two weeks ago, the Sermo site generated debate by prominently featuring postings from several doctors saying that Pfizer Inc.'s cholesterol-fighter Lipitor induces vivid and repeated nightmares in some patients as well as a posting by one doctor that said the diabetes drug Byetta, marketed jointly by Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly Col, was associated with "sudden death" in 50 patients...