Health Care centric social networking and informational sites
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Health Care is seeing a sudden spurt of social networking and informational sites. Since I closely follow this field, I thought it would be nice to compile a list of sites and provide details on features they support.
DailyStrength.org
This provides a community where people can write their own diary as well as participate in discussion around various topics (related to disease, wellness, parenting etc.). Main features of the site are:
- Communities (groups on various topics of interest e.g. diseases, teens, parenting etc.)
- Discussions (forum like thread)
- Treatments
- Recent News
- Resources (articles, websites, books etc.)
- Treatments
- Profile
- Ability to join communities
- My Journal/Diary
- Share post on all communities or just your journal
- My Hugbook
- Send Messages/Receive Messages (private / public)
- Add a Friend
- My Photos
- My Page
- How am I feeling today?
- My treatments
OrganizedWisdom.com
It is centered around sharing user experience with certain treatment or product or anything on those lines. The idea is to create a wisdom card out of the experience and share it with the user community. Main features of the site are:
- Share Wisdom/Experience
- Select a topic from a list of existing topics
- Share your story
- What happened?
- What went wrong?
- What went right?
- Lessons learnt
- Recommend (step 3)
- Contact this person
- Contact this place
- Check out this product
- Here is an idea
- Take this action
- Review the wisdom card you just created
- Publish the wisdom card
- My Profile
- My Wisdom
- Wisdom cards that user created
- Others wisdom cards saved by the user
- Saved expert wisdom (doctor reviewed content)
- Search
- Wisdom Cards
- View Wisdom Card Content
- View other wisdom cards from the same user
- Add wisdom card link to social bookmarking sites
- Mark wisdom card as useful or not
- Mark wisdom card as “Expert Wisdom Card”
- Email wisdom card
- Save wisdom card
- Print wisdom card
- Health Library
- View doctor reviewed content (from healthwise) on the topic
Vimo.com (comparison shopping for health)
This allows users to compare health insurance plans and health savings plan. It also allows users to rate hospitals and doctors.
- Individuals and Families
- Health Insurance Plan Search
- Browse Health Insurance Plan
- Get a quote
- Small Businesses
- Health Insurance Plan Search
- Browse Health Insurance Plan
- Get a quote
- HSAs
- Search for Health Savings Accounts
- Compare Health Savings Accounts
- Browse Health Savings Accounts
- Doctors
- Rate a doctor
- Find a doctor (specialty, location, last name etc.)
- Read reviews about a doctor
- Browse doctors
- Hospitals
- Search Hospitals
- Browse Hospitals
- Search Procedures (cost estimate given)
- Browse Procedures
- Dentists
- Find a dentist
- Recommend your dentist
- Read reviews about your dentist
Sermo.com (by physicians, for physicians)
Only physicians can join this network but the idea is to exchange observations and knowledge among them.
PatientOpinion.org
- See what other patients are saying about their health care experience in an area (zip code)
- See what other patients are saying about their health care experience
- Latest
- Thanks
- Moans
- Add your own story so that others can learn from your experience
- Rate the care you received at hospital
- Set up your own diary to keep track of your appointments and the questions you want to ask.
worldmedcard.com (Personal Health Record)
- About Me
- Basic Information
- Emergency Contact
- Allergies
- Medical Allergies
- Other Allergies
- Medications
- I am taking
- Have taken in the past
- Family History
- Vaccinations
- I had
- Plan to have
- Illness
- Surgeries
- Medical Tests
- Blood pressure log
- Blood sugar log
- Weight log
- Symptoms log
- Cholesterol log
- Health Visits / Appointments
- My Doctors
- My primary care physician
- Other doctors I have seen
- Insurance Company
- Insurance details
- Contacts
- Print my health record
- Print my summary health record card
- PHR USB Key to carry the data
- PHR available on cell phone / mobile devices
www.healthline.com (search engine for health related stuff)
- Health Channels: Health Channels are your one-stop resource for top health articles, current news, HealthMaps®, recommended web searches and more.
- Diseases and Conditions
- Drugs
- Symptoms
- Tests: Diagnostic Tests
Some others which I won’t be able to cover in detail are:
The founder of AOL has launched a new social networking site around health called RevolutionHealth which I will cover in some later post. I have seen the beta version of the system and it holds great promise.
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