"Start Your Revolution" Health

He brought you AOL back in the times when email was the latest thing and an email address with your name as part of it was really cool.  After making AOL an online behemoth, Case merged it with the mass media giant Time-Warner in 2001, just in time for the dot-com recession.  This merger of online and mass media never quite worked but not for lack of vision.  Since resigning from the board in 2005, Case has been looking at health care

His new venture is Revolution Health.  In a video on the site, he tells us his vision and why he started it.

From the Press Release "Manifesto"

- After three months in preview mode, Revolution Health today formally launched RevolutionHealth.com, a comprehensive health and medical information site, specially designed with the family's Chief Health Officer - busy moms and other caregivers - in mind. Revolution Health also announced the acquisition of TLContact, Inc., the company that provides CarePages, the leading Internet service for building online communities that support communication among family and friends when someone is receiving care.

There is a lot of great health information and tools on the Internet, but nobody has assembled them in a way that is compelling and useful for consumers who want to take more control of their family's health. We've scoured the landscape to find the very best health tools and content, and we've put them together all in one place - and made them all free. We will continue to work to build - in partnership with dozens of organizations and millions of people - the Internet's leading health site."

I've been impressed with CarePages, a service that helps keep family and friends updated and last year wrote a post about them.  Today, more than 500 hospitals offer CarePages to their patients, though anyone can create one free of charge.

Case writes a blog on CarePages chronicling Revolution Health.

The website itself is quite good, with as much attention to healthy living as to getting good information and support if sick.  You can know your risk, build your own health page in beta, find out what's bothering you with symptom-checker,  find a doctor and rate yours, find drugs and treatment and rate yours, assess and track your health with 150 tools, even organize your health records.

With videos about common medical procedures and meditation, with expert medical bloggers and ratings by other people just like you, I'm betting that Revolution Health will help you get to a healthier place.