Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Medical librarians and librarians in general can be hard sells for health-related search tools. But it is simple fact that not every community has a medical library and not every consumer knows about PubMed or MedlinePlus. And some communities lack access to online public library resources and it is hard for the disabled to make [...]
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Healia has partnered with the The American Diabetes Association (ADA) to empower Healia Communities. Healia is a health search engine that allows users to receive guidance on health decisions. The partnership between the ADA and Healia will allow ADA to communicate directly with Healia members. About 24 million Americans had diabetes in 2007. “This collaboration [...]
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
The American Diabetes Association (ADA), the nation's leading non -profit health organization providing diabetes research, has collaborated with Healia Communities, a free online health community that enables people to get personal support for their health decisions from peers and experienced health professionals.
Market Wire - Media and Entertainment: Information Services (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) The American Diabetes Association (ADA), the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, has collaborated with Healia Communities (www.healia.com), a free online health community that enables people to get personal support for their health decisions from peers and experienced health professionals. The new collaboration gives the ADA's diabetes...
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Healia – your guide to healthy decisions: Health Search Engine and Online Community by Tom Eng, President and Founder, Healia After a long career in public health and health policy, I founded Healia many years ago with initial funding from the National Cancer Institute (part of NIH). The vision then—and remains today—is that universal access to high quality [...]
Putting people first (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
There are quite a few new health-related social networking sites: Daily Strength Healia HopeCube ICYou iMedix I’m Too Young for This MDJunction MedHelp SugarStats TauMed Trusera TuDiabetes WEGOHealth Read more here
Fixing Foibles & Follies (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
H ealia, where I interned last summer, recently launched a health social networking site: Healia Communities . Just like the Healia search engine , which generates high-quality, high-relevance results, Healia Communities uses algorithms to guide users to other users who can best help them. Healia Communities integrates with the Healia search engine via resources . Essentially, these allow users to...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
With pollen counts climbing, the more than 35 million people in the United States affected by seasonal allergies can look forward to symptoms such as itchy, red eyes, sneezing and a runny nose in the next few months.
moraaz.org - feed all tech! (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Health search engine Healia has recently launched some community-driven verticals in order to provide additional value to users. This is something that several health-related search tools have done, in order to supplement existing search content with user-generated content. This is typically a tricky situation for the health sector because of the sensitive and [...]
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
At the Consumer Health World Conference in Las Vegas, NV, Healia President Tom Eng announced the launch of “Healia Points,” a program that was created to reward Healia Communities members for their positive contributions and to promote high quality information exchange. Healia Communities is a free online health community and support group that enables people to [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
SEATTLE, WA -- 05/06/08 -- This week, at the Consumer Health World Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., Healia (www.healia.com) President and Founder Tom Eng announced the launch of "Healia Points," a program that was ..
Market Wire - Medical and Healthcare (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) This week, at the Consumer Health World Conference in Las Vegas, Nev., Healia (www.healia.com) President and Founder Tom Eng announced the launch of "Healia Points," a program that was created to reward Healia Communities members for their positive contributions and to promote high quality information exchange. Healia Communities is a free online health community and support...
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
See all of the 166 contenders and pick your votes at The Search Race! 1 ChaCha 2 Exalead 3 JIxperts 4 HealthPricer 5 TWERQ 6 UpTake 7 OrganizedWisdom 8 Surf Canyon 9 iSeek 10 Tayait 11 Famhoo 12 Matchpoint 13 Twingly 14 Quintura 15 Faroo 16 Healia 17 Cluuz 18 Mahalo 19 PeekYou 20 ClipBlast! 21 Jamespot 22 Clueray 23 Noza 24 Omgili 25 Picsearch
Revenue Source (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
The launch of Healia Communities adds to a growing mix of sites all aimed at providing a common ground for people, ailments, and the ability to connect with others online. read more More...
Alt Search Engines (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Today, Healia announced the launch of Healia Communities, a free online health community that enables people to get personal support for their health decisions from peers and experienced health professionals. “We believe that Healia Communities will guide people to both the information and support they need to make important health decisions,” says Eng, Healia president and [...]
