Healtheon was a dot-com startup company, created in Silicon Valley by Dr. James H. Clark and Pavan Nigam. Healtheon's business plan was to streamline communication and paperwork in the United States health care system. They developed software that placed their company between physicians, patients, and health care institutions, eliminating unnecessary paperwork and facilitating networking and communication amongst the three. In mid-1995 Clark decided his next venture should tackle the health care industry. Weeks after Netscape's historic IPO, a meeting of venture capitalists , physicians, and... technologists was held at Netscape's offices in Mountain View, California to lay the groundwork for the company. No consensus emerged on the business model. Nevertheless, a group was assigned to write a business plan. Tellingly, the business plan was never written. Nevertheless, a company, called Healthscape, was formed in early 1996. When the domain name healthscape.com could not be acquired for a reasonable price, the name was changed to Healtheon. The early days of Healtheon were marked with strategic disarray.
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| Founded: | 1996 |
| Founders: | James H. Clark, Krishna Kolluri |