At last, an online health focused search engine that provides hit lists that aren’t clogged with bogus promotional sites and disreputable content. Healia is a major step forward in health search engine technology, delivering consumers high quality, personalized health information.
Existing search engines make it difficult and frustrating to find reliable and personally relevant health information because they provide a flood of generic hits, many of which are of questionable validity. This is especially true for health topics that are commonly the subject of scams and dubious activities, including alternative medicine, nutrition, diet and weight loss, prescription drugs, and cures for serious diseases.
Some notable improvements on the Healia site:
· Enhanced filtering accuracy and performance.
· More filters to allow people to sift by topic when they submit a disease or drug-related search.
· A “Suggested Result” from a reference site for disease and drug-related searches.
· Expanded suggested equivalents to common medical abbreviations and acronyms.
Healia uses patent-pending algorithms to generate high-quality, finely filtered, and personalized results that took over four years to develop. R&D funding for the project was sourced from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the
Healia acts as your own health librarian that can sort through the multitude health-related internet pages to help you find the specific health related information you are looking for. This is good news for those polled in May by Jupiter Research where only 16 percent of those asked said they were actually able to find the health information they were looking for online.