The Role of Medicine.lv in the Development of a Healthy and Educated Society

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The Role of Medicine.lv in the Development of a
Healthy and Educated Society

• Ieva Treija
• Medicine.lv

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What Is a Vortal?

• Vertical Industry portal sometimes called vortal
  is a Web site that provides information and
  resources for a particular industry.
• Any vertical industry as well as its place in the
  Web vortal - brings together people sharing an
  interest in exchanging information about that
  particular industry.

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The Vortal as a Part of the Health Information
System
Health Ministry
Associations
Hospitals, clinics
Medicine.lv
Society
Physicians, experts
Branch companies
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What is Medicine.lv?

• Medicine.lv is a health care industry vortal.
• Medicine.lv is active since 2004.
• Medicine.lv creates a link between a large
  audience and medicine and health care
  professionals.
• This communication gives society an opportunity
  to acquire information and to become educated.
• The vortal serves as a source of information for
  all interested individuals.

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What is Medicine.lv?

• Various organizations and institutions have the
  opportunity to observe what issues in the field
  of medicine and health care are of public
  interest.
• From these data they can learn which information
  the society is missing, and organize their
  information flow accordingly.

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Vortals Medicine.lv Visitation Statistics for
the Period20042007
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Questions Research Methodology

• Goal to clarify the topics of public interest.
• Selection of the visitors questions by date
• Summarizing the data for 4 periods
• Examination of the first 100 questions of each
  period
• Grouping the questions according to the health
  care spheres

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Most Frequently Asked Questions
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Most Frequently Asked Questions
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Most Frequently Asked Questions
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Most Frequently Asked Questions
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Most Frequently Asked Questions
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Topical Fields of Interest by 4 Periods

• Period 1 Psychology and psychotherapy
• Period 2 Search for contacts with specialists
• Period 3 Search for contacts with specialists
• Period 4 Gynaecology urology

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Conclusions
From the summarized data we can draw the
conclusion that the society is actively searching
contacts with specialists. People are prepared to
use internet resources. Therefore the web
environment has to be improved. In this way we
can help the society to become educated and to
take care of their own and their families health.