Healtheon

Healtheon Corporation
Founded1996; 28 years ago (1996)
FounderJames H. Clark
Pavan Nigam
Defunct1999; 25 years ago (1999)
FateAcquired by WebMD
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, United States

Healtheon was a dot-com company founded by James H. Clark and Pavan Nigam. The company's mission was to "use the power of computing and the Internet to revolutionize the healthcare industry, stripping away its inefficiencies and inequities and streamlining it for the new millennium".[1]

In 1999, the company was acquired by WebMD.

  1. ^ Creswell, Julie (February 21, 2000). "What the Heck is Healtheon?". Fortune.