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Friday, July 16, 2010

HealCam In the News

Filed under: Net News

Our new website HealCam, a chatroulette-like video service for people with medical problems, is less than one week old, but we've already been profiled on the following sites: DiabetesMine, HealthCare IT News, Nature's Spoonful of Medicine, ScienceRoll, Stanford's SCOPE, and Fierce Mobile Health Care.

If you don't know, HealCam is a new service for people who have medical problems and who want to talk to others with the same condition. A person enters the site, no registration, no forms, clicks on start, chooses a medical condition from a drop down menu and is automatically connected to a random other person who wants to talk about the same disease. Here are the present choices: Back&Neck, Heart Disease, Cancer, Pregnancy and Childbirth, and Diabetes.

Please check it out: HealCam....

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How do you verify the other person has a similar condition? How do you know they are not "fake" patients working for a drug company? How do you verify the information, if any is given out?


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on July 14, 2010 01:17 PM GMT

There is no verification in the same way that there's no verification when two strangers meet and talk about something. HealCam is simply a communication channel for people to discover others they find interesting and relevant.


Posted by: Medgadget
on July 16, 2010 11:24 AM GMT

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