Comments on: Introducing eHealthopinion.com

By: Santosh Bhandarkar

Santosh Bhandarkar — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:46:57 +0000

What are the legal implications if the diagnosis is wrong and causes complications? Since some of you are charging or the service, they should be held accountable!

By: Manish Gupta

Manish Gupta — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:58:32 +0000

I saw both eHealthOpinion.com and HealthcareMagic.com . I would say that HealthcareMagic is far too superior as it provides instant access to doctos online.I can chat with a doctor. eHealthOpinion is good but it takes atleast 1 day to get answer by email.

I also see that HealthcareMagic’s technology is far too better. I have not seen website with such good effects using div pop-up except LinkedIn. Excellent experience on HealthcareMagic. A must try.

No wonder that it had more than 100,000 page views within a few weeks. Keep it up.

By: A N P

A N P — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:16:29 +0000

Congratulations on your success and launching this site. It’s more than a just a site, its great a facility for patience and their relatives. Few months back I looked for similar site or facility where I can get hold of Corneal Expert for my dad without traveling to another city, state or country. In nutshell it fulfills multiple purpose e.g. reduce travel, get expert opinion without seeing a doctor (as he already has seen the digital records of ECG, x-ray, pathological records). It also allows doctors to discuss the medical condition, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and more with or without presence of the patient.

I like the concept and I wish all the doctors with participate and hospitals will promote the idea of using this facility internally and externally.

Good luck and nice job, keep it up.

By: Shekhar

Shekhar — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:20:36 +0000

I’d like to introduce www.HealthcareMagic.com. A Health 2.0 Start-up is coming-up in Bangalore.

Usually we come across this situation when we’re looking for a Doctor or Hospital in the nearby location? Wondering whether the Doctor is good or bad? How do his patients rate him? Worst, you want to crib about a Doctor who gave you all those costly medicines for no bloody reason?

HealthcareMagic is a good solution in this case… HealthcareMagic is India’s first Health 2.0 Portal bridging the gap between end-users like us and Healthcare services in an interactive Web 2.0 user-friendly way.

Some great features in the sites I noticed are, and all services are free…

* Chat with a Doctor online for FREE!
* Talk to a Doctor online for FREE on the Phone!
* Doctors available Online from 9.00 AM - 9.00 PM IST
* Share your experiences, write reviews about Doctors & Hospitals you visited or know.
* Search & Compare Doctors & Hospitals in Bangalore
* Patient information are fully CONFIDENTIAL
* Interactive features like Health Calculators & Hospitalization Cost Calculators which helps you take your decisions

In last 2 months of operation the site recorded 100000+ visitors and more than 4000 chats on the portal. HealthcareMagic is planning to expand to all 4 metros, Hyderabad, Chandigarh & Pune by this year end.

I personally found the Chat with a Doctor very useful… anyone can get online with a qualified Doctor from anywhere.

By: Devendra

Devendra — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:31:23 +0000

Being in healthcare industry I learnt a hard lesson to quote reference. Pew Internet Survey is the reference for the statement. You may be correct that healthcare might not be most common reason.

Obviously I have to make the introduction short. In practice doctor gets alert message “you have received new patient” in his registered email id. Similarly patient gets alert message (email) when doctor responds.

The registered doctor at our site agreed to provide the service without any cost. They are not taking any consultation charges at present and same way we are. Also the registration for doctor and patient are free from our side. The biggest challenge is to check authenticity of registered doctor.

Thanks for the feedback.

By: Vijay Anand

Vijay Anand — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:06:23 +0000

‘One of the most common reasons for people to go online is to search for health information.”

Thats a very wrong opening statement. I cant remember when was the last time I was looking up for medical info, neither can most folks I know. So yeah, probably “most common” isnt the right set of words.

“Patient selects doctor and sends data to him. Doctor view and interpret patient’s data and write and send his opinion / prescription back to patient.”

Is the doctor waiting/expecting the data from the patients via this channel? If its not the primary channel, and if they have to login into a system to check, have you factored in time delays and neglect factors?

“At present the service for patient is completely free of cost.” Is the doctor paying? Just curious about the specificity of the “patient”

Another feedback: Use Spellcheck Might be just a perception, but when folks from the healthcare industry make spelling mistakes, it scares me

By: Raman VikramAdith

Raman VikramAdith — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:37 +0000

Looks like a very interesting service. Nice job, all the best!

By: Amit Vyas

Amit Vyas — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:29:34 +0000

Nice website, used it recently and it works !!! got the doctors reply very next day and that too from US and the opinion was really worth……really a good concept and will help a lot to patients like me…