MEDgle, via My eConsult, seeks to provide transparency to consumers' medical options. My eConsult focuses on answering questions like:

• What diagnoses are relevant for me?

• What types of doctors should I talk to?

• For a diagnoses, how can we make sure that's what I have?

• What are my treatment options?

Getting personalized answering to these questions are difficult. Our goal, is to make getting answers simple and easily accessible.

In a broader perspective, consumers in combination with confusion are facing challenges in obtaining affordable health care. Increases in misdiagnoses (10-20%) and decreasing access to specialists has contributed toward the crisis. Consumers are understandably nervous about the quality and affordability of the care they receive. Health care is simply facing a global crisis.

A powerful strategy to combat this crisis is to change the health care paradigm to empower consumers to have a stronger voice in their care. MEDgle provides the tools to increase consumers' knowledge base therefore enabling a more equitable and satisfying partnership with the physician. This results in a significant decrease in misdiagnoses and reduction in costs thus ensuring that health care is relevant, personalized, accessible and affordable.

We believe MEDgle/My eConsult's personalized results and range of results is perhaps the best in the world to date. Especially with health, personalization is key to making the results relevant and useful. When doing a symptom search, the user wants potential diagnoses not a stream of web pages. MEDgle connects symptoms, diagnoses, drugs, procedures and physicians along a variety of parameters including age, gender, duration, family history, and lifestyle factors such as smoking, overweight and diabetes, thus providing different results depending on the consumer's health and lifestyle profile.

In summary, My eConsult takes into account WHO you are in addition to WHAT you are searching for.

Over the course of the last few years, we have received numerous emails from consumers stating the usefulness of MEDgle in helping them determine their conditions and seek appropriate care earlier than would have otherwise been the case.

The continuing motivation we get from just one of these stories is very invaluable. My eConsult has many benefits for the consumer:

• The objectivity (computerized) yet personalization of the search (by age, gender and lifestyle options) enables the consumer to search in privacy, without embarrassment.

• The results can be communicated with his/her physician through fax or email, thus enhancing the role of the consumer as a partner with the health care provider and ensuring a more meaningful dialog.

In order to provide this service globally, My eConsult is available in:

• Spanish

• French

• German

• Dutch

• Chinese (Simplified and Tranditional)

• Japanese

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