I got an invite to iMedix today and joined right up. It’s a brand new health focused social network and when I say brand new, I mean it. They’re not even in Beta yet! And for an “alpha release” I was pretty impressed. Some of the functionality isn’t up and running yet (like adding links and adding friends) and in a couple of areas clicking the submit button meant I was trapped in a waiting for a response loop, but that happens to all sites once in awhile.
Right now there are only 9 communities in iMedix but they’re a solid 9 communities:
ADHD
Allergies
Anxiety
Asthma
Cholesterol
Depression
Diabetes
Obesity
Pregnancy
There’s one little feature that I really like about iMedix. I like it so much probably because it was on my “in my dreams” list for the place I used to work. You write a blog post and then you select which community you want your blog post to appear in. So if you belong to Depression, Pregnancy and Diabetes – you send your blog post to the community/communities it applies to. Or you can NOT send your blog post to any community at all – just leave it alone, in your space. Beautiful. I am guessing that when the share a link functionality is up, that it will work the same way. I hope so.
I’ve got 3 invites left, if you want one leave a comment and it’s yours.
If you still have any invites left, I’d love to take a look, from a blindness/screen reader perspective. The only issue would be whether they’re using the graphic captchas to prevent automated registrations. Thanks for posting about it, I’ll keep an eye out for it launching.
I guess you know I want one. 🙂
Hi Denise,
We are excited to hear you like our website 🙂
We promise cool new features (on top of links and friends) every week or two, so be sure to visit us again and check them out.
In addition, we’d be happy to increase the number of your invitations, so if you are interested just send us your iMedix username + sign in email to: info@imedix.com
Nickie – we try to maintain high accessibility standards (hence – no captha at registration), so we’d appreciate any feedback you can send us from a blindness/screen reader perspective.
(There are feedback forms you can use once signed in, or you can simply email us: info@imedix.com)
Hi Denise,
We are so glad you like our website 🙂 We are actually getting excellent reviews from users who can now make better health decisions using our community. There’s a great need for finding and sharing good healthcare information these days. Did you know that 50% of US health patients don’t understand what their doctor told them after their appointment? Our unique and disruptive approach is “patient to patient” based. We are building the biggest Database of patients’ experiences and wisdom. This idea should change Healthcare as we know it.
We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas.
Best,
iri.
Hi Denise – If you’ve got an invite left, I’d like to take a look. It will be interesting to compare to OrganizedWisdom and Hope Cube.