At a health conference in San Francisco on Thursday, participants focused on ealth 2.0, a buzz word for online ventures that aim to improve health care by expanding the public's access to Web tools such as customized health search engines and social networking sites, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Companies mentioned in the article include:
Current Health 2.0 offerings include Web sites that allow consumers to:
+ Rate doctors online, such as ratemds.com;
+ Shop for medical prices and locations, such as vimo.com;
+ Search for medical information, such as webmd.com or healia.com; and
+ Share patient experiences, such as dailystrength.com and patientslikeme.com.
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