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Do you remember the last time you met your doctor? And do you remember what the prescription was? Unlikely. That's why you should have a decent filing system. And in case you are not able to do so, key in all of them. Each one of them. So that the next time you meet your doctor who quizzes you on your last medication, ask him to look up a website. Cool man. It just can't get any better than this. For the health freaks, the frequently ill, for those with a condition such as high/low BP/ diabetes, and the hypochondriacs.
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Medindia.net, the pioneering medical portal of the country, promoted by FrontPoint Systems, USA and started four years back has been made Wireless Application Protocol – (WAP) enabled. Announcing this at a press meet here, medindia.net CEO Dr. Sunil Shroff said that as the site was made WAP-enabled, the people could access the vast content on the site through cell phones.
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Medindia.net has announced that it has become WAP enabled in order to further the possibilities of medical practice. The portal offers a wide array of features for both the medical professionals and healthcare consumers. It has an online searchable database on Indian healthcare from all over India. Searches are available for medical colleges, dental colleges, nursing colleges, pharmacy colleges, postgraduate medical institutions and both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
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“It has the most comprehensive online searchable database on Indian healthcare from all over India with 2 lakh entries,” says Dr. Sunil Shroff, transplant surgeon and Head of Department of Urology-SRMC, at press conference. He is the brain behind the site which is promoted by FrontPoint Systems (which designed and developed the huge Southern Railway site). “There is nothing in healthcare that the portal doesn’t have.”
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Medindia.net, healthcare and medical portal, has become WAP (wireless application protocol) enabled. Having completed four years, the portal has a database on healthcare from all over India with two lakh entries. The wide range of search options includes details of doctors by name or by specialization. The company plans to tie up with insurance companies for providing service relating to medical claims, Dr. Shroff said.
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Medindia.net has become the first medical portal from India to become WAP enabled. This allows public access to Medindia’s content on the Net through cellular phones. The portal has completed four years of existence and is the site of the Medical Computer Society of India, a professional forum for medical and InfoTech professionals promoting the discipline of medical informatics in India.
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Now all emergency and health information is only a cell-phone away. Medindia.net, promoted by Medical Computer Society of India (MCSI) and FrontPoint Systems, has become the first medical portal from India to become WAP enabled. While MCSI is a society of professionals from the field of healthcare and information technology, FrontPoint is a US based IT company with over 500 Web projects to its credit.
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Another issue that he has taken up with an equal fervour is the creation of a platform for clinicians and IT professionals to interact. The Medical Computer Society of India, which he belongs to, has set up an India centric portal (www.medindia.org) that brings pharmacists, doctors, chemists and medicos together. It also aims at establishing a standard protocol in hospitals which would integrate all services on the same plank. Networking again, doctor?
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The Medical Computer Society of India (MCSI), set up in Chennai over a year ago by Dr.Sunil Shroff, a consultant  urologist and transplant surgeon at the Sri Ramachandra Medical Hospital, to facilitate the use of the Internet by Indian doctors in the treatment of their patients, today, regularly receives letters from patients and doctors about various medical problems.
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Indian healthcare on the Net
The Indian healthcare industry has not been slow to exploit the Internet-dozens of web sites have sprung up some to help medical practitioners of specific disciplines, exchange views and news; others geared to provide the public with medical information services. The following is a brief survey of what's on offer at the various web sites.
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A practitioner is not able to explain the nitty-gritty of the disease or symptoms to his patient. This is what prompted some in the medical field to provide 'patient information' in the form of small booklets and leaflets on various medical topics. However, the Internet provides a perfect universal platform to disseminate this information instantly without incurring the cost of printing stationery or distribution.
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The Potential Role of Telemedicine in India
Members of the Medical Computer Society (Chennai) are identifying and reporting on ongoing telemedicine developments, especially those involving use of existing tools such as electronic mail and the Internet.
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A first year post-graduate (Orthopedics) of the Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC & RI), Porur, Chennai, has come out with a Medical Bulletin Board Service (MBBS) which offers medical news from all over the world free cost through the net. The bulletin service is to start its operations from January 1, 1998.
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As prolonged treatment did not give her any relief, her query was put on one of the bulletin boards on the net by her friends. There was overwhelming response from all over the globe and finally an American doctor suggested that it could be a case of arsenic poisoning. Based on this, the patient was treated and cured.
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