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Indexmedico’s mission is to improve healthcare by making accessible to healthcare professionals and the public a portion of the wealth of relevant information on the Internet in two major languages.
Indexmedico began in 1995, when Daniel Belluscio, M.D. a physician from Buenos Aires, Argentina, became fascinated by the wealth of medical information that was fast accumulating in the Internet, and how it would benefit the world’s healthcare community and the public. Realizing that most of the articles and other publications were in English, Dr. Belluscio began a campaign to remove the language barrier and make accessible, at least a portion of the information, in two major languages: English and Spanish.
By 1996, Dr. Belluscio and his team launched Indexmedico, a bilingual web site that summarizes relevant articles in Spanish, with a link to the unabridged version in its original language. The intent is to reduce the time and connectivity cost to healthcare professionals, by providing them with a selection of articles summarized in their primary language, so they can quickly evaluate the relevancy of the article and decide whether to download and read the entire text. To ensure that the information is available to everyone, Dr. Belluscio decided to make this a free service.
The project caught the attention of Susana Turbitt, President of InterSol, Inc., an Internet and Translation Company in California, U.S.A. InterSol has many clients among the healthcare industry. Recognizing the value of the service that Dr. Belluscio’s team provides
to the healthcare community, InterSol joined forces with Indexmedico to become a leading provider of free access to bilingual medical information on the Internet.
Today, Indexmedico is accessed by individuals
and companies from several of the world’s nations interested in healthcare information. The top fifty countries, in order of hits received are:
- Mexico
- Spain
- Argentina
- Colombia
- Peru
- Venezuela
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Chile
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Uruguay
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Cuba
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Brazil
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Dominican Republic
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Portugal
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Ecuador
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Nicaragua
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Canada
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Panama
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United Kingdom
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Bolivia
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Costa Rica
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Germany
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France
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Paraguay
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Netherlands
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Italy
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Guatemala
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Australia
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United States
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Switzerland
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Belgium
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Czech Republic
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New Zealand
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Japan
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Sweden
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Austria
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Israel
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Saudi Arabia
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Norway
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Denmark
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Romania
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Finland
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India
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Russian Federation
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Luxembourg
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Hungary
- Ireland
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Top domains (in order of hits received)
Commercial (.com)
Network (.net)
Educational (.edu)
Non-Profit Org (.org)
Government (.gov)
US Military (.mil)
The Indexmedico web site
has been recently updated and given a new look.
The information has been reorganized for easy access and to provide for
future growth. We are now offering
companies the opportunity to advertise on the site. Advertising
options range from text ads to banners and streaming video with a
custom branded player. Indexmedico
is stepping up its efforts to build the Indexmedico brand recognition
worldwide with a planned advertising campaign that includes press
releases and banner advertising in major search engines.
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