Medicine Community Leads Health Care's Social Web with its Newly Updated Drugs Forum
Social health platform PrescriptionDrug-Info. com offers a major update for its users, enhancing the ability for individuals to share their drug-related questions and stories with each other anonymously.
Westlake Village, CA (PRWEB) January 18, 2011
With the maturation of a social internet combined with the ever-increasing number of individuals seeking medical information online, the People's Medicine Community stands out as an example of the quintessential drugs forum.
A recent report from the PEW Research Center (1) revealed that over 80% of internet users seek health information online. The question remains, how will the health care industry evolve as a result of the emerging social web and its reach into medical topics? "It boils down to the patients' voice being heard and the usability of the platforms through which they can interact," stated Nick Jabbour, the community's founder. Having started his site in 2005 after learning about the sheer number of drugs on the market, it has remained a continuous work in progress since day one. 2011 marked the release of the site's third major revision, a move which he hopes will further enhance the community's ability to help others while expanding its reach across the web.
"We have invested the better part of 8 months rebuilding our community from the ground up," he added. "We basically took a good look at every single feature on our site … picked it apart … and then recreated it based on the experience which we have accumulated over the past 6 years." "A balance has been met between patient privacy and social information sharing." Such a balance is obvious upon visiting the site. Users are freely welcome to contribute to the prescription drug forums anonymously, plus enhanced social sharing tools have been incorporated across virtually every page on the site. Users can now share information from the community on their Facebook or Twitter pages, in addition to virtually every other social platform.
"We would like to encourage the sharing of knowledge and experience across the web. It is our hope that communities such as ours can help to innovate their respective industries. Patients' voices are represented loud and clear on our site," Jabbour shared in a statement. It was also announced that the latest version of The People's Medicine Community embraces current web standards such as HTML5. Jabbour claims that the average performance across the site was improved by 45%, and that every member of the testing panel had praised the reworked interface prior to the site's update on December 31.
About PrescriptionDrug-Info. com, The People's Medicine Community®
Built on the fundamentals of a social web, The People's Medicine Community® operates as a medium for individuals, patients, care-givers and other interested parties to share medical experiences with one another. Online since 2005, it has grown to encompass hundreds of thousands of posts from visitors around the globe. PrescriptionDrug-Info. com is a free service that allows visitors to share their drug-related questions stories anonymously. Users need not register to use the site, adding a level of privacy and comfort.
They are reachable at:
The People's Medicine Community®
3835R E. Thousand Oaks Blvd # 175
Westlake Village, CA 91362
Web: PrescriptionDrug-Info. com
Facebook: facebook. com/rxinfo
Twitter: twitter. com/druginfo
References:
(1) pewinternet. org/Reports/2010/Generations-2010/Overview/Findings. aspx
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