IMedix.com - You Are Not Alone With Your Illness

It can be difficult to find secure and accurate information about your health out there in cyberspace. Fortunately, there are sites that provide relevant articles and discussion forums with your wellness in mind that aren’t crippled by spammers and/or bogus posts. One such community is iMedix, a community-powered health website which aims to do two things: one, connect users suffering from similar ailments so that they may benefit from each other’s knowledge of their condition, and two, allow users to access articles and relevant information about diseases and disabilities. In terms of the discussion feature, patients can chat with eachother on-site in real time, or can exchange private messages. If you can’t get the information you need from other site users, you can utilize iMedix’s extensive search feature which brings you results approved by medical associations such as HON (Health on the Net Foundation). The search also filters results based on user rating in regards to credibility and relevance to provide the best information as voted by the iMedix community. Lastly, iMedix takes advantage of its ability to bridge the gap between marketers in the healthcare industry and their target audience (patients) by utilizing its algorithm’s ability to identify specific individual healthcare needs and match them up with the corresponding medical service or product provider.

“iMedix is a free website that helps you find and share health information.

At iMedix, you are not alone, coping with fear and confusion regarding your medical condition. Whether you're looking for symptoms, diseases, treatments, or simply general health information, you will be searching together with many other people. Members of the iMedix community assist each other by sharing their experiences and ranking medical content in order to make health information personal, organized and accessible to any individual”

Health communities like iMedix help filter out the chafe out there in regards to healthcare information. Since search results are approved by recognized internet health information organizations and are in turn rated by the iMedix community, it’s unlikely that you’ll encounter any false or misleading information. Their marketing strategy could also likely prove successful and distinguish it from other similar communities who don’t take advantage of the connection between medical providers and their target audiences.

The one crucial element iMedix seems to lack is a network of doctors and/or healthcare professionals associated with it, which might deter potential users who are skeptical of a community which operates without professional medical supervision.