Medico.com - online health information and support
Medico.com is a health information and community website for global markets.
Sobre Você
Sobre Você
Nome
Gleyce
Sobrenome
Oliveira
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Sobre Sua Organização
Nome da Organização
Medico.com
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , NY, New York, New York County
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Brasil
Sua organização é
Privada
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
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Esther Dyson - edyson@edventure.com, Esther Dyson does business as EDventure Holdings, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004. In the last few years, she has turned her sights towards IT and health care. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include Boxbe, CVO Group (Hungary), Eventful.com, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, and WPP Group and Yandex (Russia). Some of her past direct IT investments include Flickr, Del.icio.us, BrightMail, Medstory and Orbitz. Dyson was the founding chairman of ICANN from 1998 to 2000, and was also chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the 90's.
Gilles Frydman - kosherfrog@gmail.com, Gilles Frydman is the head of ACOR, the Association of Cancer Online Resources, founded in 1995 in New York, and the largest online cancer patient community with 65 000 patients and caregivers. ACOR’s 159 electronic lists deliver approximately 1.5 million email messages weekly. The ACOR community has demonstrated its ability to accelerate the distribution of quality information regarding trials, treatments, pharmacovigilance. Gilles, who grew up in France, is a co-founder and past president of the Society for Participatory Medicine. He is and always will be involved in new projects that will continue to bring the power of the Internet to each individual patient.
INOVAÇÃO
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Há quanto tempo está em funcionamento?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
In many countries, people don't have access to free and reliable health information or, if they do, it is somewhat limited and not timely (people may have to wait a long time before they get to talk to a doctor). Besides, doctors in places where the health system is overloaded, do not have the time to educate their patients and explain all the intricacies of the diagnosed condition or the suggested treatment. So how do people find health information that is free, reliable and timely? How do they find the support they need to deal with their condition?
These are the questions that Medico.com is trying to answer.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja objetivo!
We offer a large database of reliable articles where people can find a detailed, yet jargon free, explanation to several conditions and procedures. For specific concerns, they may ask questions that are answered by a lively community of health professionals and also other users, who are free to share their experience and knowledge.
The quality is assured by 100% moderation - all question and answers are moderated to comply with our policies and quality standards. For example, in order to avoid wrong diagnostics and treatments, medical advice is not allowed on the website and we always advise people to consult with a doctor for personal diagnostics, treatment and prescriptions.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
A person begins to experience excess thirst, fatigue and frequent urination. She books a doctor, but the appointment is only in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, she researches the web and finds a helpful article about Diabetes and wonders if that isn't what is causing her problem. She reads and notes down doubts to ask the doctor. During her appointment she is more specific and the exams confirm the suspicion: she has diabetes. The doctor only says that she has to be more careful with the diet and exercise frequently, but she arrives home full of doubts and insecurities. She access Medico.com and reads about diet for diabetes, complications, exercises and even checks the experience of other users. She finds information about two different types of diabetes and posts a question about how to differentiate one from the other. Another user who has type 1, explains the difference and she receives a notification by email. Now she knows better how to take care of herself and prevent future problems!
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
ABC da Saúde, Minha Vida, HealthTap, WebMD.
Our focus is on providing a platform for patient to patient sharing of information, because we believe that patients can help patients, some times even more than doctors can.
Unlike the others, we are targeting multiple languages and countries. We have launched versions of the website - in Spanish, Portuguese and now English, for India.
Temas relacionados à inscrição
IMPACTO SOCIAL
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos um pouco a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo:
The parents of Elan Dekel worked at WHO, implementing health care systems in developing countries. He grew up with a strong inclination towards health matters, but dedicated his career to his natural talent: technology and the internet. Before founding Medico.com, Elan was at Google, where he was responsible for Google’s Product Management in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, where he could see that there were markets that didn't have good online resources for health. He then decided to associate his background to his interest in health to found Medico.com, an online community that could help people access reliable health information and connect with people who could give them support.
Descreva a meta da sua iniciativa; fale sobre o que você está tentando alcançar.
The idea is to offer the website to all markets that don't have access to good online content for health. We started in Spanish, in June, to cover not only Spain but most of Latin America. Four months later we launched in Brazil and, three months after that, in India. The plan is not only to expand to other markets but also to other channels: we are developing mobile capabilities to take health to people where (and when!) computers are not available.
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
We have launched in three different markets in the most spoken languages in the world (mandarim excluded), making our product accessible to millions of people worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of people benefit from our platform monthly.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 5 anos?
The idea is to make our product accessible and well known also in Africa, Middle East and East Europe. We also want to partner with patient associations and health care providers to improve the quality of information and help them increase their reach as well.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Go mobile, portals partnerships, create evergreen content
Identifique as três maiores atividades que você terá de completar para obter a meta estabelecida para os seis (6) meses
Atividade 1
Develop mobile capabilities
Atividade 2
Close local deals with portals for content promotion
Atividade 3
Produce content that is both timely and culturally relevant for all our markets
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Launch in other 3 different markets and develop strong communities
Identifique as três maiores atividades que você terá de completar para obter a meta estabelecida para os doze (12) meses
Atividade 1
Raise another round of funding
Atividade 2
Identify markets and local partners
Atividade 3
Invest in the relationships with the users and the social/community features of the website
SUSTENTABILIDADE
Por favor, explique de que forma o estabelecimento de parcerias é importante para o sucesso de sua inovação
Medico.com is made of people! Our partners help us both with content and with raising awareness.
Atualmente você planeja atender outros locais, mercados e populações específicas com sua inovação? Se sim, onde e por quê?
Yes, Africa, East Europe and Middle East, since several countries there lack good resources like ours.
Que tipo de ambiente operacional e fatores da organização interna ajudarão o projeto a ser bem sucedido?
We work on a fast pace and with pro active people, who take on the task and deliver results fast.
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 | 11 weeks agoVitor Asseituno said: I understood the proposal, but you said that the differences you have from the competitors is that you are written in many languages. ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 15 weeks agoGleyce Oliveira updated this Competition Entry. |
| 15 weeks agoGleyce Oliveira submitted this idea. |