We first posted about RH when it went live in preview mode about 4 months ago. Today, as reported by News.com, the site was officially launched. AOL founder Steve Case is the founder and CEO and IR/search engine expert, Matt Koll, is also on the team.
Direct to Revolution Health
“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
+ Google Ads on results pages
See Also: MedlinePlus
Still a vital resource for health info.
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