Medindia.com (or .net) is Asia’s premier health portal providing a range of services to both healthcare consumers and the medical professionals. Medindia has a net presence of seven years and was started as a social mission to provide the consumers with essential health related information in simple language. Over the years it has evolved into Asian regions most comprehensive portal in the health sector in terms of content, viewer ship, technology leadership and domain expertise.
The portal is headed by eminent doctors with a team of editors, programmers and designers. The site recommends registration to fully utilize its services that are all free. The popular areas include electronic medical records, Health Info, Calculators and Interactives. Doctors, hospital administrators and conference organizers are able to create free online homepages without technology/internet expertise. The search directories have over 200,000 entries of Doctors, Dentists, Hospitals, Medical colleges, Chemists, Surgical suppliers and Pharmaceuticals from all over India.
Medindia.com (or .net) is a privately funded company and is promoted by Frontpoint Systems a web solutions major. The content and medical expertise for the site is provided by Medindia Health Network Pvt Ltd. Part of its earnings go to promote the use of medical informatics among healthcare professionals through the offices of Medical Computer Society of India (MCSI). Medindia has so far sponsored more than three national level conferences on medical informatics and telemedicine in India.