Review at Wired Mag July 2014
- Launched 2010
- serving over 100 million people
- 1.9 billion doctor answers after just a few years
- Currently 63,000 doctors
- Telemedicine services $240 million in 2013, $1,900 million in 2018 (prediction)
HealthTap
Standard service is free, and easy to sign up, use with computer, smartphone, tablet, etc
Added video consultation service for $99/month in July 2014
Vitamin D questions as of July 2014
| Question | Doctors Responded |
| How much vitamin d should I be taking and why? | 4 |
| How is level of vitamin d in the body lowered? | 3 |
| What are the best sources of vitamin d? | 2 |
| Why is vitamin d important? | 2 |
| How much vitamin d should I take? | 2 |
| Can you overdose on vitamin d? | 3 |
| What foods have vitamin d? | 2 |
| How much vitamin d a day should one take ? | 3 |
| What foods have vitamin d? | 2 |
| How much vitamin d a day should one take ? | 3 |
| Could it be possible to take too much of a vitamin And would that make you ill, particularly vitamin d? | 2 |
| What are the foods source of vitamin d? | 3 |
| How much vitamin d should you take in a day? Is it possible to overdose? | 4 |
| What is the fastest way to get vitamin d? | 2 |
| Is sunlight a source of vitamin d? | 3 |
| I am to take 50, 000 iu of vitamin d (my level is 26.7) once a week. Could I take one capsule every other week and still benefit? | 3 |
| What are sources of vitamin d? | 2 |
| What are the risk of low vitamin d? | 1 |
There are many other services on the web - such as
http://www.patientslikeme.com/
http://www.medhelp.org/