SharePractice offers a free iOS social medical reference app that enables doctors to publish clinical findings, generate feedback, review conventional therapies, and incorporate new medicines into a collective knowledge base. The platform allows physicians to share favored treatment methods and rate peers’ entries, influencing clinical decisions and reputations. It is used by more than 5,000 clinicians across medical fields to access and search diagnoses and see preferred treatment approaches based on real peer experience. The company is led by Dr. Andrew Brandeis and Benoit Carrier and is based in San Francisco, CA. SharePractice recently raised seed funding and plans to use the proceeds to expand the team and accelerate development of its core technologies. Share Practice offers a mobile, Wikipedia-meets-social-network platform that lets verified physicians ask questions and get feedback from other doctors in real time. The app verifies doctors using Doximity and ties contributions to reputations rather than anonymity to encourage trustworthy answers. It is currently in alpha with about 200 users and the team said it was roughly six weeks from a formal launch at the time of the article. The product targets residents as a core user base and plans to give medical students read-only access while restricting contribution. Share Practice is free for doctors; the company plans to monetize by aggregating and selling insights about why doctors choose particular treatments to drug companies, insurers, and researchers. The team presented the product at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 and cites clinical use cases—such as identifying fosfomycin for recurrent UTIs—where peer sharing sped treatment decisions.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2014