Posted by meramd
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:00:00 GMT
In the last post we covered the 10 reasons why doctors should create online presence. This post is about what we are doing to help doctors create and manage their online web information. Today, patients with access to internet, researches about a doctor before going for consultation. Research is done broadly in two ways:-
- Via search engines like google, yahoo etc.
- Find a doctor directories on trusted health website.
Our public profile provides a greater likelihood that potential patients will find you online. See for yourself the power of our listing, perform a google (search) for geeta bajaj ardee city gurgaon. Her meraMD public profile comes up at top of all results. meraMD.com provides a search platform where in patients can search on the basis of area/city and speciality.
In today's age, if prospective patients are hungry for information and if they don't find information about a particular doctor, they will move to the next one. Also it is very important to provide the correct and accurate information about oneself and their professional achievement on the internet. meraMD provides complete control to doctor for updating and maintaing their public profile. Creating a public profile is easy 2 step procedure at meraMD.com.
So as a doctor if you want to expand your career, it's time to start thinking of the way you are represented online. So what are you waiting for - click here to signup for meraMD.com public profile.
Posted in meraMD Features, Doctors and Hospitals | Tags directory, doctor, listing, profile, public, register, signup | 2 comments
Posted by meramd
Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:50:00 GMT
- You can publicize practice to millions of potential customers. Profile helps in customer acquisition.
- A profile page can save you a lot of money in communication and administration cost. Having full control of profile makes it easier to change and update.
- You can publish profile information in other campaigns therefore creating a brand for yourself.
- You can publicize the practice on the internet 24 hours a day and 365 days of the year.
- Patients can be local, nationwide or global - they can find information easily about you.
- Writing blog post is tremendous way to get your name out there to the general public. The purpose of writing is to get your patients to know you. When you write, you are not trying to sell something; you are basically providing useful information.
- Ask, share and connect with other doctor's in communities on specific topics.
- Continuous Medical Education - Get involved in educational activities which serve to maintain, develop or increase the knowledge, skills and professional performance and relationships that the physicians uses to provide services to patients, public and profession.
- Receive information about medical profession related events happening in specific area/city.
- Get to know what patients feel and think about you. Share the recommendations that you have received from your patients on the internet. These help new patients in decision making.
Posted in Doctors and Hospitals | Tags blog, community, events, medical, online, presence, profile | 1 comment
Posted by meramd
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:36:00 GMT
Our doctors directory has now crossed 60,000 doctors!
There are about 600,000 doctors practicing in India as per different reports. So we are pleased with the above number. We are hoping that we will make this number reach 100,000 by August 2008.
The directory covers all cities in India, though the maximum doctors are from Mumbai.
Do ask your favourite doctor to join us here!
Posted in meraMD Features, meraMD news, Patients, Doctors and Hospitals | Tags contact, doctor, India | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by meramd
Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:55:00 GMT
MeraMD.com has relaunched its community driven doctor and hospital recommendation service. This service allows users to recommend a health service provider (doctor, hospital, clinic) to others in the community.
MeraMD.com had launched this service in early 2008 and is now re-launching an improved version of this service based on comments and feedback from the users and medical service providers.
The major changes in new avatar of this service are:
- Registered Medical service providers are now informed whenever a recommendation is received for them.
- Negative/Offensive comments are now displayed to medical service providers for their comments, leading to a possibility of 1-to-1 dialogue between the service provider and the user.
- Users are informed about the action taken on their comments. Comments can be rejected, forwarded to medical service providers or made visible to community at the discretion of meraMD.com.
The new version of this service is expected to be more useful to the community. Some of the things that remain unchanged are: it is still a free service and there is still no registration required to add or view recommendations.
Posted in meraMD Features, meraMD news, Patients, Doctors and Hospitals | Tags doctor, hospital, recommend, suggest | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by meramd
Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:11:00 GMT
We launched the recommendation feature about a couple of months back and the response has been excellent especially in the light of the negligible marketing efforts so far for meraMD.
We have got both very good and very poor recommendations from our users. This blog post is triggered by the latter variety. There have been many recommendations that use foul, unprintable language. Of course, given the context, the users did have genuine reasons for being outraged... ranging from lost ultrasound reports to gay doctors...
Though its unlikely that any of these recommendations are untrue, but publishing such recommendations will be in no one's interest. Its not just that we are hearing only one side of the story but also the fact that people can have an occasional bad experience even with very good health care providers. Its only when we have a large number of recommendations for the same doctor/hospital, that we can get a true picture about the quality its of health care.
We will shortly publish the recommendation posting guidelines on our site, but for now we request our users to follow the general netiquette guidelines. http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html
The comments are expected to be objective e.g. please give data on the procedure cost, instead of just calling it "exorbitant" or "looting". Objective data will help users make an informed decision and go a long way in establishing the credibility of the recommendations themselves. Not everything can be put in objective terms, but strong disapproval is possible even without using foul language.
What do our users think?
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