Comparing doctors online? dCard aims to make it easier
Plenty of startups these days want to help you find and compare doctors online, but there’s a problem: Each one independently compiles its own basic information on physicians, leading to a welter of inconsistent data.
Now a consortium of nine health-related companies, many of them part of the “Health 2.0″ movement, have a solution — an open data standard they call dCard (for “doctor card”) intended to serve as a Web-wide template for physician information. We have the scoop over at VentureBeat Life Sciences.
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About the Author, David P. Hamilton
David Hamilton has been writing for VentureBeat LifeScience since April 2007. He formerly spent 14 years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in its San Francisco and Tokyo bureaus. Prior to that, he spent several years as a reporter at Science Magazine and as a reporter/researcher for the New Republic, both in Washington.