I won’t reinvente the wheel by telling the story behind Health 2.0 Accelerator. I have pasted the original article for more details. However, I want to talk about how I can be benefical to be involved in this project. For example the first project in which members will take part is about moving pharmaceutical data. The advantage of such an initiative is inspired from the opensource contribution widely common in software communities. People in healthcare  could then focus on solving more complex problems that plague the actual healthcare sector. Stay tuned, the wiki is up and running at Health2Accelerator.org

“For several months there has been discussion amongst Health 2.0 companies about the concept of a Health 2.0 Accelerator. It started with Marty Tenenbaum’s introduction of the concept in September 2007. It continued with the discussion at the San Diego meeting in March 2008. Since then conversations and meetings among a small group have continued to define a first cut at what the Health 2.0 Accelerator should be.

The basic idea is for organizations to collaborate to create “public goods” —frameworks and strategies that will help all concerned to advance the industry. The way to do this is via projects that tackle particular problems, and leave behind frameworks and utilities that all can use.

The reality is of course going to be more complex, but we’re delighted to announce that the first project concerning moving pharmaceutical data has been announced, and the first principles and statements about the future of the Accelerator are now up at its own wiki at Health2Accelerator.org.

We are now asking for everyone in the Health 2.0 Community to become members, suggest projects, and contribute to the wiki. This is very much a work in progress, but we believe that the potential is huge. Please go to the new site, and contribute by giving us your comments.”

By Mathieu Hault and Indu Subaiya

Your TeleDoctor is in Vencorps and has applied for funding. This opportunity will allow me to get direct feedback from peers in a controlled environment. I have been invited by Will Pate, that believes in the potential of TeleDoctoring, to take part in the alpha. If you an entrepreneur, investor, technologist, web enthousiast and want to get an invite, please drop me an email.

Your TeleDoctor is looking for a service provider to build an alpha version of the service.

Here are the options I found so far:

• Elc Techlnologies that have a Service for Entrepreneurs to provide you with a 1.0 version in as little as 6 weeks. The cost is 90K, all inclusive. Their portfolio is impressive.
• Atlantic Dominion Solution offers to develop around 25 mockups and provide me with one month with one developer for around 32K. Of course, this doesn’t ensure that I will have all the funtionalities implemented. I don’t know how much I should add to this, knowing tht a developer’s rate is $11o an hour.
• InfoEther is a superstars rails shop and have people like Chad Fowler and Rick Kilmer as developers. Their rate is $200 to $225 dollars an hour. This is pretty expensive but can offer consultancy if I choose to work with less skilled developers.
• HashRocket has a program similar to Elc Technologies called 3-2-1 Launch, but the duration is 1 month. They provide you with two developers, rough out an application in 3 days and spend the rest of the month cleaning up and adding features the application according to customer feedback.
• Freelancers. I don’t know what to say about freelancers but from my previous experience, it is very hard to manage someone that will get paid on a hourly basis. I think the best option for someone with limited ressources is to fix the goal. The compagnies that I stated have a proved process and can deliver. One of the problems I ran into for my previous startup is running out of money while paying developers $90 an hour. I spent over $15,000 dollars for maybe one or two functionalities that are not even working properly.

So if you are a rails shop and wants to work towards building an alpha version of teledoctor, please send me an email to mehdi.akiki@gmail.com.

Hi there. This is the official blog for the project Your TeleDoctor. I’ll be discussing here all issues related to medical consultations over Internet, not only online consultations but also all the transactions that can be transferred online to better serve healthcare professionals as well as patients.This is our ambition.

In the meantime, we will be building the corresponding web application while carefully gathering data from both your observations and feedback. 

Please feel free to contact us whether you are curious/interested on this project or for any general inquiries about healthcare, web 2.0, consultations and medicine.