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Healthline, WebMD and a Dream to match magnitude

Yesterday evening, when I was sipping my best cuppa of Coffee...My friends rang me..What time dude..Rememeber we need to meet and discuss..the same..How profitable a business is ehealth...My head was spinning though, I still said Yes...After I came back I thought I should write about Ehealth as a concept and profitability. For years, thousands of people around the world have been publishing small Websites dedicated to a specific health or mental health topic. Maybe it was a site devoted to colon cancer, or breast cancer, or traumatic brain injuries. Maybe it was a site full of information about depression, or mania, or borderline personality disorder. Thousands of people toiled hundreds of thousand of hours to create these small, informative sites, linking to other great informative sites or which are already successful and all that, but does that works? In late 1996 and early 1997, companies started forming around the idea of compiling a whole bunch of health or mental health informat...

Scommerce and Health

sCommerce has been called the new Web 2.0 buzzword by web analytics. The Difference between eCommerce and sCommerce in that eCommerce is electronic commerce whereby people individually buy stuff online while sCommerce is Social Commerce whereby individuals buy stuff online with millions of people helping them.www.suvidhaa.com is one such initiative. If you ask me there was a long standing need for thsi as far as healthcare online shopping was concerned. Where ecommerce is the art of customer acquisition, Scommerce will be for customer satisfaction. Although this is a very new and a very good idea, it will require legislation and controls.Shopping online is a user convenience module which has to be made more standardised and user friendly, For health related products specific guidance is necessary before one takes the leap. Scommerce will be the ray of hope in here. Scommerce will benefit anyone who:- seeks to benefit from the combined knowledge of more than one doctor / health profess...