DoubleCheckMD.com - How Are your Drugs Doing?

Did it ever happen to you to take an over-the-counter pill to stop a mild flu and end up looking like Mr. Potato Head? And so you discovered that you are allergic to some of the components of medication, and you’ll probably discovered that you are not quite alone in this world. And thus the launch of DoubleCheckMD.com is such big news: a search engine which uses and recognizes everyday language symptom description, so to allow consumers to search medical texts for information of Adverse Drug Reactions, drug-drug interaction and sole drugs side effects. For instance, if after taking a pill you feel you have blisters in your mouth, or your knees hurt, you just type it in those words, plus the complete list of the medications you take on a regular basis (including vitamins, natural remedies and over-the-counter drugs), and the system will retrieve if any of the discomforts you are experiencing have a record of being the result of taking the same drugs you are on at the same time. Other than that, you get detailed information, and you can even take a look at the original medical sources it came from. Also take a look at the ‘Next Step’ tag, to learn what you should do, or what lab tests you should take. The idea is that you print all of this information and head to your doctor’s office to decide what to do next with professional counseling.

“DoubleCheckMD.com –developed by Enhanced Medical Decisions, Inc.– is a powerful, first-ever, online medical solution that uses "natural language" search technology, empowering users to quickly and easily find accurate information on drug interactions and reactions. DoubleCheckMD.com covers all over-the-counter and many herbal remedies as well as prescription drugs”.

The experts of medical psychology have stressed the importance of helping doctors do their job, and providing them with as much information as might be available; this is the only way to help reduce the human-factor mistake involved in every medical decision-taking process. DoubleCheckMD.com certainly accomplishes this goal, while actually explaining stuff to the people who are taking these medications, and thus it educates patients as well.

Happily, there is no advertisement to be seen in DoubleCheckMD.com, which raises the question on funding and revenues for this company, in as much as it is a big credibility issue. For instance, if they were being funded by the pharmaceutical industry they wouldn’t be as reliable a source as they would if they were independently funded, and in any of the cases it would be a great idea to state it clearly. Can they consider it?