CarePilot launches healthcare search

By Vivek | April 4th, 2007 at 10:37 pm ET         

CarePilot today went live with it’s vertical search engine where you can compare home health care providers in US. CarePilot’s obvious goal is to map UGC onto the data it has already collected for the 8,000+ home health agencies . You can search for care provides according to your zip code and choose service provider+keywords to narrow down you results. To start with, these search results let you easily compare health agencies according to their accredition, patient volume, and quality of care grade. You can also run side-by-side comparisons of health agencies although I am not sure how useful that can be. CarePilot also sports social networking features that lets users add each other to their CarePilot connections network. Profile photo upload, saving of completed searches, sharing of search results via email, contacting agencies online, and creating patient profiles to be sent to prospective providers are some of the other goodies thrown in.

CarePilot is currently staying away from direct advertising on the site while trying to build sponsored healthcare listings. Since CarePilot has just launched, there is hardly any user-generated content available - typical catch22 situation for any new social-vertical. Would revisit the site in another few months. MedBillManager, Medstory, Sermo, PatientsLikeMe, and RevolutionHealth.com are some of the other recent innovators in the medical space.

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