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Online Medical Consultation

Submitted by: Brillo
Created: Jun 2, 2008, 9:44 am

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The Elevator Pitch

For people all over the world who have some medical queries or questions the Online Medical Consultation with reverse auction is a one stop destination that can help the users to get their health questions answered at the cheapest possible price. Unlike other highly billed medical consultation firms, our product can deliver medical answers from qualified Medical Practitioners and receive answers at remarkably lower costs(50% less than others)...

The Idea

www.mymedexpert.com , MyMedExpert serves as a one-stop one-stop destination to get medical opinions from doctors of all specialities and sub-specialities. Users can post their medical/health questions to registered and qualified Medical Practitioners and receive answers at remarkably lower costs.

The users can choose the doctor based on their profile and reviews received from other users. All the doctors in the site will be verified before they start answering the questions.

your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Anyone interested in funding can contact me for more details

I thought of this idea when I was...

I thought about a service that can render cheap medical advice at the cheapest possible amount.

Comments Posted

landsky Posted: June 2, 2008, 9:05 pm

I actually think this would work better in Canada than US. US docs are pretty well compensated, as I understand it, and Canadian docs are, also as I understand, less well paid, have a less stable income, and would be up for this. I like the idea.
Wes

morpheusind Posted: June 3, 2008, 12:46 am

I saw a system similar to what you have envisaged in http://www.emedsol.biz. It is positioned as a networking and business platform conneting hospitals and demand side entites based on protocols. The system seems to have captued most of the requiements in the medical tourism domain and coverted the same into a software format so that the various entities can network and transact. It also looks at multiple second opimions and referrals.

creeper Posted: June 23, 2008, 5:00 pm

Isn't it hazardous to have people just writing their sintoms?
will doctors write prescriptions?
or just send the patients to a hospital?

TheGuru Posted: June 26, 2008, 1:35 pm

no self respecting doctor will open themselves up for that legal liability.
that's why doctors give referrals.

skywalker Posted: July 7, 2008, 9:53 pm

Similar idea social network for people (not just doctors) to talk abt health and diseases stuff..
http://www.trusera.com/
http://blog.patientslikeme.com/
http://www.vitals.com/ (This site also includes doctor reviews by patients)

HerraHuu Posted: July 23, 2008, 12:27 am

There is lot of this idea going on in the world. I have seen national versions of this idea as well. The whole cost thing for customer is real shady. No patient on this earth can describe their illness into one description box without the doctor asking a ton of additional questions... Remember that doctor-patient relationship is 1) for a reason confidential 2) interactive information exchange 3) not very price sensitive service ("I will pay whatever it takes to be healthy") 4) requires real trust to have any help to the patient

kennybeck Posted: September 7, 2008, 5:54 pm

I'm kind of torn on this. It started out right but took that sharp left when we start talking about the auctioning of medical services.

wiseguy88 Posted: December 27, 2008, 11:07 pm

Here are my questions:

1. What if the person who was sick missed a few symptoms? Would the medical diagnosis be accurate, especially if the doctor could not see the patient but merely rely on his/her typed query?

2. How would the doctor then dispense the correct medication?

3. Would people abuse this? Say, they type in symptions which will enable them to get medical leave. Then go see a doctor to get medical leave?

Hello!

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