You can search nearby doctors according to specialization, specific ailment, or particular treatment. Where available, the site displays the detailed information of each doctor along with his or her appointment rates. You can also refine your search by proximity, price, experience and practice style

After selecting your doctor you can book an appointment with him or her. You can pay for the appointment on the site as well; insurance holders can specify so on the appointment page. You can provide three date preferences for the appointment. For some doctors, you can see their calendar and available dates.

Additionally your account can be used to remind yourself of doctor’s appointments and view your basic medical history.

Features:

• A user friendly website.
• Lets you find doctors near you and book apointments.
• Find doctors according to specialization, ailment, or treatment.
• Lets you book appointments online and pay for them.
• Similar tools: Doctor Finder, UCompareHealthcare and RateMDs.

Check out Health In Reach @ www.healthinreach.com/search

The internet can be easily used to find the doctors in our city, however the existing ways to do so provide no insight about the doctor’s personality. Insider Pages Doctor Finder plans changes that.

Doctor Finder is a free to use website that lets anyone search and find medical specialists partnered with patient reviews. Users can use different parameters to filter our search. These parameters include the doctor’s specialty, type of insurance coverage, and distance from entered location. Further filtration options include gender, language, certification, and a clean record.

Our results are then shown on a map with the doctors’ positions clearly marked. Each doctor’s listing is accompanied by working hour details, qualifications, and even patient reviews which immensely help us in deciding the doctor most suited to us.

Features:

• Lists doctors in our nearby area and provides comprehensive filtration options.
• Complete address references with maps.
• Includes many statistics about the doctor.
• Includes patient reviews about each doctor.
• Similar tool: UCompareHealthcare and RateMDs.

Visit InsiderPages @ www.insiderpages.com (via VentureBeat)

The initial step in using CureTogether is searching for a particular symptom, condition or a treatment. The website will then display medical conditions that are related to your search query. Clicking on a condition will show classical symptoms as well as other related symptoms based on the input of users that experience the same condition. The site also displays the highest rated treatments, treatments with mixed effects, possible causes and other related medical conditions. You can also add data to the website by completing a survey related to your condition.

CureTogether is a very useful website for quickly finding data related to your condition. This tool should help you make better decisions about your health.

Features:

• Helps you self-diagnose medical conditions.
• Search by condition, symptom or treatment.
• Find other possible treatments for your condition.
• Information is based on user input.
• Track your progress using health measures.
• Information should not be used to diagnose yourself.
• Similar Tools:  Googlehealth, Symptom Checker, Symptom Search, CountyHealthRankings.

Check out CureTogether @ www.curetogether.com

Sign in with your Google account details and create your personal profile by entering your health conditions, medication, allergies etc. You can have more than one profile (for family members) and give name to each separate profile. Your data is kept private and secure, however, you can share your data with other people (doctors, friends) and control who can access what.

Check out the directory of online health tools providers that are associated with Google Health. Link them to your profile to start using their services to manage your health information.

Features:

• Store and manage you health information in one central place.
• Access your information from anywhere using your Google account credentials.
• Build multiple online health profiles.
• Import medical records from hospitals, pharmacies and health records partner providers listed in the directory.
• Share your health information with other people. Control who can access what.
• Find doctors by name, location and specialty and add them to your medical contacts.
• Service is free. Sign in with your Google account details.
• Similar tools MyVitals and HealthVault.

Check out Google Health @ http://www.google.com/health

You can search for healthcare providers and browse the database by location or nam. Clicking on particular healthcare service provider brings you a comprehensive report about it. For example, for hospitals, it publishes detailed reports on their quality, total charges, patient safety, mortality rate and more. The website allows to compare up to 4 hospitals at once for any of the above mentioned parameters.

Features:

• Free comprehensive reports on health care providers in your area.
• Compare doctors, hospitals, nursing homes and fertility centers in every state in the US.
• The data obtained from federal and state government agencies and other third party sources.

Check out UCompareHealthcare @ www.ucomparehealthcare.com

It’s a pretty good site that aims to help people find good doctors by specialty or location, based on the ratings given to them by their patients. Each doctor gets an overall quality score that consists of 2 factors: Helpfulness and Knowledge.

RateMDs brings greater transparency into doctor-patient relations. Better, friendlier and more competent doctors are rated up and gain credits and recognition, while incompetent, rude and unethical doctors get a bad press and can even get sued if many patients complain. You can even use the site to file a formal complaint against a particular doctor with the state’s medical board.

Features:

• Doctor recommendations and rating website.
• Find a good doctor by specialty and location.
• Sort doctor’s from best to worst based on the overall quality score.
• The site available in US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
• Register to review your doctor, edit rating and save favorite doctors in your account.

Check out RateMDs @ www.ratemds.com

Features:

• Search for hospitals in your area and see type of services they offer.
• Get address, phone number, website link etc.
• No sign-up or registration needed.
• Works only for hospitals within United States

Check out US Hospital Finder @ www.ushospitalfinder.com

MiVitals Features:

• Manage, store and share (coming soon) personal / family health records online.
• Upload and store medical reports, test results, x-rays, scans etc.
• Integrated address book for all health related contacts.
• Add appointments and schedule reminders for doctor appointments, treatments, etc.
• Create emergency print-friendly PDF report that can be shared with health professionals.
• Record: allergies, diagnoses, mental health Injuries, dental history, vision or gender specific conditions, and more.
• Coming soon: Graph & report treatment progress / SMS text reminders / add info via mobile phone.

Visit MiVitals @ www.mivitals.com

Feature Overview

• Manage and Share your health records online.
• Keep all your paper-based health records into your account.
• Share your data with others (ex. your doctor) and see who has accessed the data and what has been changed.
• Have your health records and scans (X-Rays, MRIs, CAT Scans) faxed directly into your HealthVault account.
• HealthVault Search: Search for healthcare articles and health information on the Web.
• Your health information won’t be used for commercial purposes (unless you explicitly allow for it).
• Deep integration with major halthcare websites: www.uswellness.com, www.purewellness.com, www.peaksware.com, www.healthycircles.com,www.capmed.com, www.americanheart.org, www.kryptiq.com

Check out HealthVault @ www.healthvault.com

ArsTechnica.com: “…the real killer feature is the ability to book a slot on a doctor’s schedule without ever having to pick up the phone…”

ZocDoc Features

• Search, Schedule and Manage dentist appointments online.
• Search for local practitioner by city, state, or zip code.
• Additional search options: by appointment date, service type (emergency, root canal, filling, whitening, etc.), accepted insurance plans and more.
• Browse dentist profiles: specialties, accepted insurances, spoken languages, education, professional memberships, patient reviews, map and directions, etc.
• Coming soon: Option to make local doctor appointments.
• More Questions? Go to help page here OR check out video below.

ZocDoc video introduction:

Go to ZocDoc [www.zocdoc.com]