Our Future Health Summit Blog returns for 2020!
“Jama Nateqi is the Founder & CEO of Symptoma.com. Jama is a Medical doctor and Co-founder of SYMPTOMA.com, a search engine for diseases.
Jama founded his first successful business in 1999 at the age of 16. He studied human medicine in Austria and conducted research for his thesis at the Yale University, School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. Meanwhile he financed his studies himself and co-founded his second company, SYMPTOMA.com.
After investing 10 years in Research & Development, SYMPTOMA probably has established the biggest disease database in the world.
The European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Health and leading experts have acknowledged SYMPTOMA to be the “best & most promising eHealth solution in 2016”.
Contact:
www.linkedin.com/in/jama-nateqi
www.symptoma.com
www.symptoma.ie
– David Neville
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Slaintecare
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