Saturday, April 07, 2007

Custom search engines: Health

This is a custom search engine for health related searches. This search engine only searches "credible" health sites. Currently, I have put in some sites that that I have used in the past. Suggestions for improving this search engine are welcome. Thanks to Google for providing cool coop feature.




Google Custom Search

Innovation and India

India seems to be the buzzword now for everything...

Lots happening on the innovation front too... Startups mushrooming all over. Good resource for India based startups can be seen here.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Innovation in Healthcare Domain

I have been researching the availability of online medical information and it seems that are very few good sites around. Also, there is a question mark on the reliability of information present on these sites. Looks like a scope for innovation here, using the new technologies available.

Will some kind of rating system help? How can that itself be made reliable, in a scalable way?

What does the medical community feel about the online availability of medical information? Do doctors feel threatened by this information or do they feel there is a value add -- patients can ask specific questions and be better informed.

My dad recently started taking medicines for a particular disease -- the doctor forgot to mention that alcohol is not allowed with those medicines. Luckily for him, I knew about this from other sources and probably helped prevent a gross mistake.

Came across this site http://www.meraMD.com Looks interesting, health portal in india.