"It'll take some time to get going," Case said. "When I was at AOL and we launched instant messaging in the fall of 1985, it took awhile to take off and now people can't live without it...The same can be applied to health care."
Key Features from a Researcher Perspective:
+ "Learning Centers" by disease/conditions
+ Insurance information and insurance comparison tools
+ Drug information
+ Community sites with question asking and answering tools, ability to share "stories," and create your personal RH blog.
+ "Module" Based Info (Pregnancy News, Diabetes News, Heart News, etc. Add "modules" to your personalized home page)
+ Quick Review of Search Tools
++ Type ahead features. For example, as you type i-n-f-l suggestions like influenza, influenza (flu), influenza causes, etc. appear.
+ Results for some topics come with direct links to Q & A results. Here's a search for depression, look for the oval box at the top of the results.
++ Results come from two databases: 1) Revolution Health Crawl of the Web and RH sites like RH forums and 2) Kosmix
++ Results pages offer refinements by clicking topics like articles, video, news, store, etc.
++ Refinements also by source (forums, blogs, personal postings, profiles)
++ If you are registed and logged-in, past queries are listed
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
