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10 startups from mHealth 2011: Meddik

Launched by Tim Soo, a student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ben Shyong, a developer and entrepreneur at University of Pennsylvania, Meddik is a search engine designed to help users wade though the daunting amount of healthcare information available on the Internet and pare it down to a manageable level that targets the specific areas one user may be interested in reading about.

More than 40 seed and early stage companies took to the showroom floor at this year’s mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., which ended Wednesday. Many were sponsored by incubators including StartUp Health and Rock Health. This is one of a series of posts I’m publishing that includes elevator pitches from 10 of the companies I liked.

Meddik

Launched by Tim Soo, a student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Ben Shyong, a developer and entrepreneur at University of Pennsylvania, Meddik is a search engine designed to help users wade though the daunting amount of healthcare information available on the Internet and pare it down to a manageable level that targets the specific areas one user may be interested in reading about.

Its space at the start-up pavilion was sponsored by Rock Health.

“What our search engine does is we isolate what is good for you based on what you have,” Soo said. “It answers your questions relevant to the specific diseases, bringing the correct apps, the correct links, the correct content to the people who need it.”

Read about the other nine startups: CareSpeak Communications, HealthTap, EnHatch, ScriptPad, Force Therapeutics, Above Stress, OrganizedWisdom, Ayogo and Beyond Lucid Technologies.

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