1) Orkut
2) Facebook
3) Bharatstudent
4) Linkedin
5) ibibo.com
Top eCommerce sites–
1) eBay
2) Amazon
3) Rediff shopping
4) Bookmyshow – BookMyShow offers advance booking of local movie show times, movie ticket, buy concert tickets, new release movies, etc
5) Indiatimes shopping.
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The brains behind this project is James Currier. He founded Tickle, (1999) a self assessment testing company and later sold (2004) to career site Monster.com. Tickle was acquired by Monster.com for $100MM. His new venture, MedPedia, aims to be a comprehensive encyclopedia of medicine online.In the following podcast, James Currier, talks of his vision for MedPedia and explains some recent controversies which have engulfed the project.
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The Pew Internet/Health FAQ |
Original post on e-Patients.net
The lessons learnt from Pew internet research report on e-patients.
Susannah Fox is an Associate Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project and principal author of the Project’s survey reports on e-patients and online health. Here, Susannah displays an almost naive view of a health consumer”s requirements and sounds arrogant at places, especially while talking of Privacy rights.
Read her <edited> views on Use of internet by e-patients.
- Is a cultural shift affecting health care?
Yes. Thanks to the internet, people increasingly expect to have access to information. They increasingly expect to be able to comment on and easily share information. And it turns out that participation matters as much as access.
- How do people judge the quality of health information online?
The best they can, but probably not the way you think they should. Most people’s first stop for health information is a general search site. Google dominates the search market. A British Medical Journal article found that Google is a pretty good diagnostician. Very few people report bad outcomes from their online health research.
- Who’s in charge of vetting health information online? Shouldn’t we be concerned about this?
Nobody’s “in charge” and to some degree, yes. The base of the internet population is broadening to include people with less education and lower health literacy/numeracy. E-patients with a high school degree or less are more likely than better-educated e-patients to say they were confused by the health information they found online. But note that the two groups are equally likely (and more likely) to say they felt confident to raise new questions or concerns with their doctor, too. Also read-*Medical Library Association’s consumer guide AND*Alicia White’s “Keep Calm and Carry On” advice for reading health news (PDF).
- What are doctor’s attitudes?
I don’t know, but Manhattan Research and ThinkHealth do.
- Are patients ready for this?
The Center for Studying Health System Change’s study measuring “patient activation” is one indicator. The central role of family caregivers is not addressed in the study, however. Another indicator is the relentless popularity of health information online. Lots and lots of people are looking up information on all kinds of health topics.
- What about privacy?
Daniel Solove’s taxonomy of the word “privacy” has forever changed my thinking about the changing nature of personal information. In fact, I try to avoid using the word at all (instead: confidentiality, security, anonymity…)
Deven McGraw, Director of the Health Privacy Project at CDT, is a good source on health privacy regulations and enforcement. Jules Polonetsky, Director of the Future of Privacy Forum, is a more general source.
- Does the internet cause cyberchondria?
Caution: “cyberchondria” is a loaded term. E-patients.net has hosted discussions of how to describe people who use the internet to gather health information. For example: Googlers vs. e-patients vs. cyberchondriacs.
- What business opportunities are there in this field? What does the future hold?
I am watching the spread of wireless internet use very closely. Wireless access has a significant, independent effect on how someone uses the internet and it’s the trend I am most excited about tracking over the next year or so.
>Dr. Sanjaya Kumar’ is a Medical informatics and healthcare technology expert bringing message of patient safety and quality to Bangalore hospitals. His mission is his passion- working to make healthcare safer worldwide, and promoting hospital safety.With a talented team of doctors and technologists, Quantros now provides SaaS in the health care field with special emphasis on decision support system and patient safety protocols, to bring down fatal medical errors. Quantros also provides software and services to healthcare organizations in the areas of quality, risk management, performance improvement, accreditation and compliance, real-time surveillance and centralized business and clinical decision support solutions. Claiming to service more than a thousand clients, Dr.Kumar is now trying to bring his technology to India, via Bangalore.
The IPA Best of Health Awards celebrate the best creativity in Healthcare advertising, a sector which embraces the promotion of brands to both healthcare professionals and consumers.This years awards took place on Thursday 9th July,2009 at Gilgamesh Studios in Camden.
Mother Advertising was awarded the ‘Best of Show’ for advertising to consumers, for their ‘Pablo campaign’ for Frank; the Government’s anti-drug website and telephone helpline that offers advice, information and support to anyone concerned about drugs. The television advertising campaign features Pablo the dog as a drugs mule witnessing first-hand the dark side of cocaine.
Langland , founded in 1991, and claiming to be “largest independent health care advertising agency in the UK”, was awarded the ‘Best of Show’ for advertising to healthcare professionals, for their ‘Smell the stilton’ direct marketing piece for Nexavar; a drug used to treat renal cancer sufferers. Their book comprises a collection of the surprising and uplifting things people choose to do after being diagnosed with cancer.
And BTW, Langland is the same company In 2009 which produced an award-winning cinema commercial which showed a man pulling a dead rat out of his mouth 9 for Pfizer).
The IPA Best of Health Awards celebrate the best creativity in Healthcare advertising, a sector which embraces the promotion of brands to both healthcare professionals and consumers.This years awards took place on Thursday 9th July,2009 at Gilgamesh Studios in Camden.
Mother Advertising was awarded the ‘Best of Show’ for advertising to consumers, for their ‘Pablo campaign’ for Frank; the Government’s anti-drug website and telephone helpline that offers advice, information and support to anyone concerned about drugs. The television advertising campaign features Pablo the dog as a drugs mule witnessing first-hand the dark side of cocaine.
Langland , founded in 1991, and claiming to be “largest independent health care advertising agency in the UK”, was awarded the ‘Best of Show’ for advertising to healthcare professionals, for their ‘Smell the stilton’ direct marketing piece for Nexavar; a drug used to treat renal cancer sufferers. Their book comprises a collection of the surprising and uplifting things people choose to do after being diagnosed with cancer.
And BTW, Langland is the same company which produced an award-winning cinema commercial this year which showed a man pulling a dead rat out of his mouth (advt. for Pfizer).
HealthcareWorld 2010, a medical exhibition organised by Express Healthcare, has been planned with one point mission=”to bring its exhibitors the audiences they want”. It would also provide a green zone, seminar and an award show.
HealthcareWorld 2010 is being organised by the Express Group and Express Healthcare, India’s leading Healthcare Business Magazine. Federation of Hospital Administration (FHA) and The Association of Hospitals (AOH) are the supporting associations for this tradeshow. Manipal Hospital, Bangaluru, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai, Kerala Institute Of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram and Max Healthcare are supporting HealthcareWorld 2010. Hosmac is a knowledge partner and BOC, a member of The Linde Group, is associating with HealthcareWorld 2010 as a Green Zone Partner.Dr Vivek Desai, Managing Director, Hosmac India Private Limited, hopes that “Such a forum will help create better relationship between various stakeholders in a fragmented but rapidly growing healthcare industry. It will also sensitise people to new technologies which helps integrate functions, thereby improving efficiency.”
The main events planned for this forum include-
- HealthcareLive
* HealthcareLive is a strategic zone that will let you build real-life, real-time models for ICU, critical care, imaging and diagnostics.
* It will also bring the very decision makers you seek into direct contact with your product.
* With HealthcareLive you will get an opportunity to let the industry know your product USP and why it need to be on their ‘Must Buy’ list.
- Healthcare Roundtables
* Healthcare Roundtables will feature opinion leaders and experts discussing key healthcare issues.
* These Roundtables will be held for key segments like critical care, imaging, diagnostics and IT.
* This will build interest and provide maximum mileage for these key segments.
- Green Zone
This unique concept with the name Green Zone will be held in a special pavilion on the emerging environment friendly technology segment.
* Green Zone will bring together leading companies, technology providers, consultants and decision makers.
* GreenHealthcare Seminar will bring along consultations with key prospects.
- Meet the Consultants
* Meeting with consultants will bring together Medical Directors, Nursing Homes, Managers, HODs, & CTOs with leading consultants.
* There will be consultant booths for one-on-one meetings and roundtables featuring guest speakers.
* This will provide the perfect opportunity to the companies who seek to reach and influence key decision makers across the industry.
- Launch Site
* Launch Site is going to be for companies looking for the perfect platform to launch their latest offerings.
* Launch Site will provide a special stage and a space will also be allotted for collateral/ posters/ demonstration/ presentation.
* It will be aggressively promoted at the event and will be staged between 3 pm to 4 pm on all days.
Visitor Profile–
* Doctors/ Specialists
* Hospital Managers and HODs
* Medical Directors
* Diagnostic Centers
* Biomedical Engineers
* Health Care Services
* Investors for Health Care Industry
* Healthcare Services
* Investors for Healthcare Industry
* Medical Professionals
* Medical Research Institutes
* Diagnostic Centers
* Clinical Laboratories
* Rehabilitation Organisations
* lCare Services & Self-help groups
HealthcareWorld 2010 promises to be a “Happening” conference and i hope to see a lot of “Bright ideas” there.
1) Intelligent InSites — intelligentinsites.com
2) Doctors Hospital of Sarasota — doctorsofsarasota.com
3) CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System — christushealth.org
4) Holy Name Hospital — holyname.org
5) Sage Products — sageproducts.com
6) Memorial Healthcare System — mhs.net
7) VHA — vha.com the vista way..
8) Awarepoint Corp. — awarepoint.com
9) Premier — premierinc.com
10) Valley Medical Center — valleymed.org
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