Report on Indian health portals

1. Medindia- http://www.medindia.net/index.htm
The portal is headed by eminent doctors with a team of editors, programmers and designers. The site recommends registration to fully utilize its services that are all free. The popular areas include electronic medical records, Health Info, Calculators and Interactives. Doctors, hospital administrators and conference organizers are able to create free online homepages without technology/internet expertise. The search directories have over 200,000 entries of Doctors, Dentists, Hospitals, Medical colleges, Chemists, Surgical suppliers and Pharmaceuticals from all over India.

Feature- 1.News
2. Health a-z 3. Health center 4. Health tools 5. Directories 6. Services 7. Websites 8. Buy online 9. Blogs 10. Community

Important for us- 1. News

2. Medindia Animations/ Interactives 3. Health calculators (Height weight Tools, diabetes tools, Population and death clock etc.) 4. Drug price list 5. Drug toxicity

6. First aid 7. Phobia 8. Quizzes 9. HEALTH CENTAR (Sexual health, mental health, health law and Regulations related to health, health insurance, life style and Wellness, travel and health, yoga, world health days). 10. Medical tourism 11. Services (baby name, diet consultant)

2. Aarogya- http://www.aarogya.com/
The Indian System of Medicine has a lot of value and has numerous success stories. Aarogya.com endeavors to disseminate health information on benefits and uses of Ayurveda and Homeopathy. Similarly the Chinese System of medicine in the form of acupuncture and acupressure also has great value and hence the complementary medicine section covers these too. Herbs and medicinal plants and remedies practiced by tribal folk also find mention in this section. We welcome contributions to this section.

Feature- 1. Complementary medicine

a. Child healthcare trough ayurveda b. Acupressure concept c. Rejuvenation therapy in ayurveda 2. Family health 3. e-cards

http://www.healthcaremagic.com/

Feature- 1. Services
a. Live chat (paid) b. Consult a specialist (get a mail or a call) c. Personalized diet & fitness play d. get a call from doctor 2. Health dictionary 3. Drug and medicine

http://meramd.com/
Therefore meraMD.com is a health portal for "YOU" - doctors, patients, pharmaceutical companies. MeraMd.com provides health services like y y y y medical discussion forums for doctors local search for doctors and hospitals/clinics medical calculators customized search for medical diseases and conditions from the most trusted and reliable resources on the Internet

Feature-1. Blog
2. Find (doctors, hospital/clinic, diseases and condition).

3. Health topics (allergies, cancer, mental health etc.) 4. Health tools (symptom checker, BMI calculator and ovulation Calculator).

Important for us- 1. Home (advertising policy)

2. Health tools.

http://india.gov.in/sectors/health_family/index.php
Its an Indian government portal.

Feature-1. Overview of health sector.

2. Statistics, reports. 3. Plans and policy (population policy.) 4. Schemes and programmees.

http://www.indmedica.com/ Feature 1. Directories (blood banks, colleges, etc.)

2. Medical jobs 3. Product news (100% radiation safe x-ray machine) 4. Cyber lectures