IndianMedicalSites.in March 9, 2008
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Healthcare , trackbackI found IndianMedicalSites.in while surfing for Indian medical informatics content online. It seems to be a serious effort by qualified folks (its founder, Vasumathi Sriganesh, is an MLIS professional with experience as Chief Librarian) so I thought I’ll catalog it at eIndia.
Having gone through the Indian medical education system, I know that the access to online resources with clinical information is rarely of any practical utility. The sister company of IndianMedicalSites.in is Quality Medical Knowledge Foundation and it signals a change in that regard- they offer literature search services, document delivery, training programs and other products aimed at the medical user community. Very neat business to be in- I’m sure that there is a great untapped market there.
Anyways, back to IndianMedicalSites.in. It’s a good directory of all Indian websites related to medicine. The content is not much, but I think that is also the fault of not enough websites being out there to catalog. I found interesting links in the ‘Books & Magazines Online’ category, and was pleasantly surprised to find some listings in the ‘Doctors’ category (Check out Dr.Arun Mehra who owns www.bypasssurgery.in- not bad!!). Overall, like I said before, it’s a good resource to bookmark if you are in the medical profession. I hope the content keeps growing.
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I was pleasantly surprised to find this review!
We are very serious about working at making indianmedicalsites.in one of the most authentic directories of Indian Medical Sites. We are adding about 15-30 websites a week currently and are now over 1800 websites.
We have three challenges - 1) Constantly adding sites, 2) Qualifying them with appropriate keywords and 3) Working at creating more websites for health professionals and institutions.
All this - with no current funding - and everything having been done as a labor of love.
We will be looking at fundraising after we reach a critical mass of number of sites and also with the features
Sorry - I also wanted to add - we have some very unique stuff for health professionals - categories like:
* Indian medical guidelines (doctors have told us that they have never found all at one place earlier)
* List of Indian journals indexed in Medline
*List of foreign journals free to India
Vasumathi,
Thanks for the comment- I can understand the ‘labor of love’ aspect
Keeping eIndia afloat is in the same category.
QMed is definitely a pioneer in Indian context- Keep up the good work!
~ eIndia