IndianMedicalSites.in March 9, 2008
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Healthcare , 3commentsI 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.