This is excellent. I am glad to inform you all that my start-up HealthcareMagic.com is one of finalist at TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008. We have submitted our Business Plan for the challenge couple of weeks ago and we’re among 8 finalist! Total 140 start-ups from all over India competed for the challenge, and it is great to be one of the finalist.

Let’s see, we’re working on it… we’re the only company representing Bangalore and I feel the concept we’re working on at HealthcareMagic.com is full of potential to to go to a long way!

Here more details & finalists on VentureWoods

Current Firefox version (2.0.x) consumes too much memory (even when it’s being idle). Several improvements have been designed to reduce this memory usage and it will be available when Firefox 3.0 shipped. Still Firefox 3.0 RC2 eats-up lot of memory.

Meanwhile, for you who wanted to optimize Firefox’s performance, you can try this tools : Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. It’s a tool which can work silently to reduce Firefox’s memory usage, thus frees your system with heavy memory loads. With this tool Firefox RC2 in my system is just using ~3-4MB and maxmimum ~10MB with lot of tabs open. This tool really healed my system, otherwise Firefox used to eat more than 30% of system memory. It is available for Windown only and requires .NET Framework 2.0 installed. It will run in your system tray and work in background. Pretty nice tool.

Download the tool

Found something more sweeter than the simple CSS-only Horizontal Bookshelf I posted last week. Mike wrote a versatile 1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus.

The front-end mark-up

   1: <ul id="sm" class="sm">

   2: <li><img src="images/1.gif" alt="" /></li>

   3: <li><img src="images/2.gif" alt="" /></li>

   4: <li><img src="images/3.gif" alt="" /></li>

   5: <li><img src="images/4.gif" alt="" /></li>

   6: </ul>

To build the accordion call the function below onload…

   1: slideMenu.build('sm',200,10,10,1)

Demo & Download @ Mike’s Blog

According to the latest issue of “Outlook Business” magazine, the healthcare services in India’s private hospitals is getting world class. However, the customer service at the same private hospitals is not able to catch up with the rapid developments in the infrastructure of the hospital. The patients are happy with the patient care but they are still unhappy with the quality of customer care they get. Waiting in the queue, doctor not available on time, payment hassles etc.

A new trend that is coming up in this eco-system of traditional healthcare delivery through Hospitals / Clinics is “Online Healthcare”. The doctors and hospitals can look at this as a channel that filters the patients and then forwards them to the doctors and hospitals for treatment.

Online Healthcare includes a few important aspects as mentioned below. At the core of the system is a central web-site or portal.

• It provides an access to doctor online for Live Chat. The patients can use the Internet and chat with the doctor. The doctors can provide medical advice to handle the current situation and then refer the patient to the nearest hospital and doctor in their locality. Doctors also provide answers for the common medical queries.

• It provides patient generated reviews about the hospitals and doctors and also the contact details of the doctors and hospitals.

• It provides a Forum where people of similar health problems can discuss with each other.

• The website also provides content in the form of answers to common queries, which the patients might have.

• The website has common health tools and price listings for the common medical procedures in hospitals.

• Patients can buy medicine over the Internet and it will be delivered to their home.

Such trend is already popular in the USA and Europe. Many websites like WebMD is widely used worldwide. In India, HealthcareMagic has recently started this service and has already referred hundreds of patients for OPD and IPD procedures in Bangalore.

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