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Dr. Mehmet Oz and Internet Entrepreneur, Jeff Arnold, Announce Sharecare Inc., a Web 3.0 Platform, Organizing and Answering the Questions of Health.

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Sharecare Co-founders also Include Discovery Communications, Harpo Productions, Sony Pictures Television, and HSW International Prestigious Content Contributors Include Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Michael Roizen, Deepak Chopra, Dr. Dean Ornish, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and leading publishers Simon & Schuster, Harmony Books, and HarperCollins Publishers Sharecare to Offer Innovative Sponsorships called 'Knowledge Partners', Dove is Inaugural Partner Providing Branded Skincare Related Answers

ATLANTA, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WebMD founder and Discovery Communications' Chief of Global Digital Strategy , Jeff Arnold, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, a leading cardiac surgeon, health expert and host of "The Dr. Oz Show," announced today the launch of Sharecare, Inc., the first healthcare platform for consumers to ask, learn and act on the questions of health. Sharecare's additional co-founders include, Discovery Communications, Harpo Productions, HSW International , and Sony Pictures Television.

"Sharecare's vision is to build an ecosystem that simplifies the search for health and wellness information by organizing all of the questions of health and providing multiple answers representing different points of view. Our contributors will range from renowned celebrity physicians to acclaimed hospitals of excellence to best selling authors to local caregivers to online healthcare consumers," said Jeff Arnold, who has taken an expanded role at Discovery as Chief of Global Digital Strategy and HowStuffWorks.com Chairman Emeritus, in addition to becoming Chairman and Chief Architect of Sharecare. "Leveraging the power of social networking, our contributors 'share care' through both personal experience and expert knowledge, bringing online healthcare into the 21st Century."

HSW International is developing Sharecare Inc.'s customizable social QA platform, which is built on a comprehensive information architecture. The platform features social and portability tools which will shift the paradigm for interaction between professional and consumer content and seamlessly extend the content...