27 Oct, 2008
Think about this situation, This is Monday morning; you’re not feeling well today. You want to visit a Doctor, but you know the big city where you live in will take your 2-3 hours even to reach a Doctor and then wait for the appointment with the Doctor. And, typically the Doctor is going to charge you smoothly between 200-500+ bucks for that 10 minute appointment. This happens, and we all are very familiar with such moments…
Let’s talk about technology now. Look around, there are thousands of signals, hundred of people are online on their mobile phone, the web is changing everything, it is no more just to browse the stuff, the web is a platform now, it is more of a collaboration, a platform. I’m sure most of you are aware & seeing all the changes in the daily-life technology. Yes, the whole planet is going through the Credit-Crunch, but technology is something which keeps innovating, no matter whatever happens. Tech companies might be in crisis, but “technology” is always going-up… Anyways, that was off the track talk related to current Credit-Crunch, which I’m seeing people are relating to everything, which is actually not related to all the things, just like technology! So I was saying, technology is everywhere and it will be. And, typically our medium of interface with technology is mostly either a computer of a mobile device.
We at HealthcareMagic have already invaded the web by brining healthcare to you in simplest possible way, where you can directly get online with our Doctors and ask your health queries via simple Live Chat. Here comes a question, not everyone is having access to internet. So how to reach more people who are looking for relevant information about their health. To take this mainstream, going mobile was the thing on our mind. Have a look, everyone is carrying a cell phone these days from that 12 year old kid to your grand-mama!
Why not put the that same concept to mobile. Nope, I’m not talking about mobile browsing & stuff… HealthcareMagic is fully browsable in mobile devices from S40 to iPhone to Andriod based devices. We took the classical approach to go mobile… and I’m glad to inform you all that we’ve recently tied-up with India’s largest mobile service provider Reliance Communication to bring Healthcare on your fingertips, which is first of it’s kind in India. The whole thing is like, you’ll just have to dial a number and you’ll be directly online with a Doctor… exactly as our Live Chat, but on the mobile!
Here’s some news & related links…
11 Oct, 2008
With the US of A’s attention riveted on Wall Street, government bailouts, and housing foreclosures, another issue of prime concern to Americans in this election year has been shoved out of the spotlight: the candidate’s positions on healthcare reforms. Both of them is with their own blogs on the healthcare reforms. And here in India, the new Super power (American Senate approved the Indo- US Nuclear deal without the killer amendment) PUBLIC SMOKING is banned. Wherever, whoever and whenever they blog, HEALTH MATTERS.
Dr. JKC Mazumdar in my office says – “ I am a part time blogger (successfully completed two blogs, ONLINE MEDICAL CONSULTATION – A Doc’s Perspective and DOCTORING SANS ‘STETHE’SCOPE. Have you read and commented on them and if not please do that now) and my blogs are more on the Healthcare and the Consumerism…
Interestingly I heard about the History of Blogs: A blog (contraction from Weblog) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. The history of blogs is closely connected with the history of the Internet itself. One of the world’s first websites was started in 1992 by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and featured a news section pointing to new websites as they came online. This website can be considered the earliest predecessor of modern blogs. Most of the people who were creating websites at that time were computer experts using them as their online diaries to write about their personal lives. The actual term “Web log” was coined in 1997 and shortened to “blog” in 1999. It was not until 1999 that blogging started to become popular among a broader population of Internet users, coinciding with the launch of Live Journal and Blogger, the first dedicated blog hosting services.”
Tuning into the healthy and wealthy facts on the most common topic on our chats at www.HealthcareMagic.com WEIGHT LOSS. There are numerous diets that physicians and dieticians advice you on. According to a latest journal of Preventive Medicine “Whatever is the diet one follows, Food diary is the most important, it is likely to double the wt loss. When it is rightly maintained at each exchange it can produce faster results and soon you start to feel better and thereon yours lovingly shall notice a difference in your figure. The most followed and the most researched diet’s are THE LOW FAT DIET of American Heart Association, MEDITERRANEAN diet for DIABETICS and the most sticking THE LOW CARB DIET by Atkins. Now what are you waiting for, Start blogging in your Food Diary and knock the door of your local Dietician for the above diets.
Zzzzzz….. Wait, wait folks. Last thing is Regular choice of exercise is very important. In the end Weight gain or Weight loss is all about energy balance, the more is the energy consumption the more weight you are likely to shed. Never skip meal during any part of the day, it adds the weight.
Next time when I see you here, hope you would be feeling healthier and better.
1 Jun, 2008
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.
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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.
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It provides patient generated reviews about the hospitals and doctors and also the contact details of the doctors and hospitals.
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It provides a Forum where people of similar health problems can discuss with each other.
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The website also provides content in the form of answers to common queries, which the patients might have.
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The website has common health tools and price listings for the common medical procedures in hospitals.
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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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