http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/09/10/wellsphere-health-knowledge-made-personal/ The most wonderful search engines you've never seen! Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:25:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/09/10/wellsphere-health-knowledge-made-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-96576 Multi-Lingual Medical Knowledge Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:31:10 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/09/10/wellsphere-health-knowledge-made-personal/#comment-96576 The site as a whole is pleasing to the eye, well-organized and obviously put together by a crack team of proofreaders and editors with an admirable grasp of the English language. Nothing amateur night at the opera here. And the site design is a model for the industry—much brighter and more navigable than that of MedHelp, I’d say. And the community pages are richer in terms of features than those of Patients Like Me. The site leans towards the San Francisco/West Coast fitness-minded, personal trainer-hiring affluent me, myself and I audience rather than the more mainstream feel of MedlinePlus. The site as a whole is pleasing to the eye, well-organized and obviously put together by a crack team of proofreaders and editors with an admirable grasp of the English language. Nothing amateur night at the opera here. And the site design is a model for the industry—much brighter and more navigable than that of MedHelp, I’d say. And the community pages are richer in terms of features than those of Patients Like Me. The site leans towards the San Francisco/West Coast fitness-minded, personal trainer-hiring affluent me, myself and I audience rather than the more mainstream feel of MedlinePlus.

]]> http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/09/10/wellsphere-health-knowledge-made-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-96571 Multi-Lingual Medical Knowledge Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:04:42 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/09/10/wellsphere-health-knowledge-made-personal/#comment-96571 It will be fascinating to see who wins out in the health consumer sphere and if any of them start to incorporate highly sophisticated personal health records or get acquired by Google, Microsoft or Revolution Health as the giants eye the consumer health market. Many of these start-up sites will die on the vine. Others will get gobbled up, making their founders very rich indeed. And some hospitals and health networks are experimenting with creating their own patient portals. And then there is the advertising-supported model versus the get the data and sell it approach of Patients Like Me. Watch this space. It will be fascinating to see who wins out in the health consumer sphere and if any of them start to incorporate highly sophisticated personal health records or get acquired by Google, Microsoft or Revolution Health as the giants eye the consumer health market. Many of these start-up sites will die on the vine. Others will get gobbled up, making their founders very rich indeed. And some hospitals and health networks are experimenting with creating their own patient portals. And then there is the advertising-supported model versus the get the data and sell it approach of Patients Like Me. Watch this space.

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