HealthTap acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network
Doctors are in high demand, not just by their patients, but by startups looking to create social networks, marketplaces, and portals around their expertise. Today, HealthTap announced the acquisition of Q&A site Avvo Health specifically to increase the number of doctors within its network, doubling it to 30,000. The acquisition also brings a database of :hundreds of thousands of doctors and dentists across the country,” information that HealthTap previously licensed. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. [Source GigaOM]























