HealthcareMagic

HealthcareMagic is a question-and-answer website which provides answers to medical questions for a fee. A user is required to register to post a question in HealthcareMagic, paying a variable fee to receive the answer.
History
HealthcareMagic was launched in January 2008 by Kunal Sinha, Abhilash Thirupathy, Shekhar Sahu and Nitesh Pant. Kunal Sinha founded this company after he left Unified Technologies, an internet technology company based in Bangalore. In 2009, the company collaborated with Atom Telecom to launch an IVR-based payment service. The website provides answers to health queries from qualified medical practitioners registered with it from around the world. It currently gains around 1,900 new users a day and receives 4.5 million unique visits per month.
HealthcareMagic was acquired by Ebix Inc. on May 27, 2014 for $18.5 million.
Controversy
The Wall Street Journal was provided a response which was too broad during their review in 2012, and The Washington Post found their answers "too broad".
 
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