This October, I presented iMedix, a free website that helps you find and share health information. It was launched yesterday after a year in development. Why is it unique? Many of those who try to find relevant and useful medical information on the web would like to use a reliable search engine and would also like to read the stories of users who have the same medical condition. iMedix makes it possible as described by MarketWire:

iMedix allows consumers to benefit from the online research conducted by thousands of others with similar health conditions or interests. The integrated community platform allows users to enhance that information through real-time patient-to-patient interaction. By combining advanced search with community features, iMedix empowers people to find and share health information in order to make better health-related decisions.

If you make a search for diabetes for example, you get plenty of useful and reliable sources, but you also get a list of the users who are interested in chatting about diabetes. This is a great idea. Let’s see how it’s going to be used…