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 by meramd Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:55:00 GMT
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?
Posted by meramd Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:45:00 GMT
meraMD announces a new feature to help you find the doctor/hospital that you need.meraMD has launched its recommendation engine today that will help you select the doctor/hospital in your area. The recommendations are visible on the profile of the doctor/hospital. Users can recommend the doctors so that everyone gains from the collective wisdom. To recommend someone, all you need to do is to fill up comments on the detail pages. The comments are moderated to ensure that there is no misuse.
Typically people ask their family/colleagues for doctor recommendations, but that may not be sufficient in many cases. e.g. you have moved to a new city and do not know whom to ask, or you may not want to disclose to others that you are searching for a doctor with a particular speciality, or simply, no one has the latest information. To make the feature really useful, we request our users to provide recommendations for the health care providers that you visit.
Do keep the useful feedback flowing in.
Posted by meramd Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:46:00 GMT
MeraMD announces the launch of its hospital search in India
The meraMD team has been working hard on providing the contact details of hospitals and clinics in India. We are pleased to announce that we are launching the hospital search for ALL cities in India. We have over 8000 records in our database and it is growing constantly. You can search for a hospital/clinic in India from our home page at http://www.meramd.com. The major cities like Delhi, Bombay (Mumbai), Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune are well covered in our records. We do hope that you find the hosptial information that you are looking for.
The meraMD team expects that this information is useful to our users. You can help us in our efforts by sending us any missing information. As always, feedback is welcome.
