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.
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scalability requirement can be met by voluntary collaboration (think wikipedia).. but since its more critical information database, requires professional scrutiny before any publishing. that's probably the toughest task (and hinders with the former goal as well) .
regarding "meraMD" - still have a long way to go i think. as of now it's just a mashup of some services from google and amazon.
I agree that a voluntary collaboration model will be the way to go. Also, even though this is a critical database, I believe the same wikipedia model of "self-healing" can apply here.. sure there is lots of spam and junk on wikipedia too, but through a volutnary effort it gets cleaned up.
Regarding meraMD, I agree that it seems to have not much useful stuff currently but I liked the information in the insurance section, and used it to buy myself term insurance.
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