Online health searches

Posted by meramd Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:45:00 GMT

In a recently published report from hitwise there is data on what people search for online. Quite a few people may be surprised by this, but health search tops the list in the category of searches. Nearly half the searches online are health related!

Though this data may be biased towards internet behaviour in US, we think that results in India or any other country are likely to be similar.

The complete report is available here.  

 

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Adam Bosworth leaving Google?

Posted by meramd Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:14:00 GMT

We had talked about Google health intiative earlier. For better or worse, it seems almost confirmed that the person leading this effort at Google, Adam Bosworth, is leaving Google. Rumor-mill has been grinding extra time on this with speculations on whether Mr. Bosworth left on his own or was asked to leave.

Reuters just reports the official line that Adam Bosworth is leaving on his own accord and Marissa Mayer will now run the show temporarily.  

Yahoo news also reports the same Reuters story.

Searchengineland.com reports this as the official Google statement:

Adam is a great talent and was instrumental in starting Google Health. He is now on vacation and has decided to pursue other opportunities after that. Marissa Mayer is taking over the health team in the interim until a new team leader takes over. Google is moving forward with work on our health products.

We will soon find out what this means for the Google health initiative.

MeraMD expects this announcement to be followed up with more.  Keep watching.

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Health @ Google

Posted by meramd Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:30:00 GMT

Google is getting serious about health... and that can only mean good for the general population. MeraMD is going to be watching these efforts in this blog and will keep posting updates. Read this article by Roni Zeiger, Product Manager at Google to get some clues into what Google is planning.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/is-there-doctor-in-family.html

Google is working towards enabling patients to gain more control over their health by getting reliable medical information. This is also one of the primary goals of MeraMD.

So, is meraMD competing with Google...? Absolutely not! We are complementing Google in what we are providing... local health search. As the Google blog also mentions, you can use the internet all you like to search information, but you MUST visit a doctor to take care of your health.

MeraMD is committed to being the best resource for this so called "last mile" - to borrow a term from the telecom companies - and connect you with doctors, hospitals, insurance agents - and help you get the best medical care.

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Health Survey

Posted by meramd Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:35:00 GMT

Following up on the previous blog, the MeraMD team did a health survey to figure out what YOU feel your health needs are. It looks like most people have the same pain points with the health care system. Most people that we talked to are really looking forward to some online resource to help them do simple things - locating a doctor, for instance. Many people have expressed interest in purchasing insurance online but they are troubled by incomplete information and apples to oranges comparisons on the websites today.

What can MeraMD do to help here? We brainstormed this and concluded that we need to provide the correct and complete insurance related infomation to users. This led to our site providing a home page for Insurance in India. 

We have also got on board insurance agents who can answer your queries on health/life insurance. Please drop a mail to our panel at insurance@meramd.com to have your queries answered.

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Hello healthy world

Posted by meramd Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:21:00 GMT

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