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eHealth for consumers
Whether Facebook, Xing or Twitter: Internet users are spending more and more time in social networks. This also goes for patients searching for information or second opinions as now do a third of the US Americans who research diseases online in social networks to find others affected to talk about their health condition. In Germany, there is also an increase in the number of users of health portal which enable the exchange of thoughts in a closed or open community.
imedo.de is an example of such a possibility. Here, online groups can discuss experiences with various health topics. This ranges from chronic illnesses to Pediatrics to Nutrition and Sports. In addition to general information, one finds a doctor search according to area of expertise and location. The portal imedo.de was realized with the Averbis technology and demonstrates its practical capability.
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Bertelsmann Stiftung
Together with project partners and on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation, Averbis developed an independent, user-friendly Internet portal on the quality of medical care in the health sector, which has been accessible under the internet address www.weisse-liste.de since early 2008. The search for care providers is bound both to the ICD10 as well as the OPS catalogue, whereby lay-lingual translations of these catalogues guarantee the comprehensibility of portal contents for patients. Averbis implemented a qualitatively high-class, uniform and lay-friendly translation of the ICD/OPS catalogue. Further, the company provided the complete search technology of the portal and advises the Bertelsmann Foundation on all issues in the area of "Medical Language".
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Health portal imedo.de
imedo.de is the most well-known online health community in Germany. The portal lives up to its motto "Healthy together- we help people". The Averbis Search Platform assumes realizes the semantic search functionality with imedo.de, whereby laymen have access to relevant medical information as well.