From what I understood, Healtheon was an answer to the call for
health reform by Hillary Clinton. Jim Clark thought it would be easy
if we just did away with the waste. An organized informational
database seemed perfect. So when you look at where we are today in the
healthcare reform debates, I'm not surprised if what really happened
might be mired. I'm just reporting what I read in the book. And Jim
Clark's not wanting to get into it again with MS, so he sold it to MS
to pay for his new sail boat that was the largest single masted
sailboat in the world when it was finished. Don't know if it still
holds that title. Probably not.
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On Aug 30, 2009, at 3:58 PM, mike wrote:
I thought it was sold to WebMD and at the time MS was only rumored
to be
tied to WebMD? I know healtheon merged with wmd...
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Jeff Miles <[email protected]>
wrote:
I think I've mentioned it before, but you aught to read a book
called The New New. Sorry, can't remember the author. But you get
the idea
that these collusion's by competitors you speak of were brought on
by MS's
actions themselves. The book mainly centers around Jim Clark and
Netscape
and his new start up at the time, Healtheon. Even though Netscape
won the
fight, so to speak, Jim Clark wasn't going through that crap again.
So he
created Healtheon, took it public and the stock value went through
the roof.
He immediately turned around and sold it to MS. I thought it was a
great way
to in a sense flip MS the bird.
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