The Dr. Jesús Sánchez Martos, appointed medical advisor in the portal medico.com Spain.

New York, September of 2011. The company medico.com Inc. owner of the http://www.medico.com website reported the appointment of Dr. Jesús Sánchez Martos as consultant physician for Spain, a place of utmost importance to assist the proper functioning and quality of information disclosed by patients and medical personnel in this new virtual community available to the e-pacientes.

The e-paciente is a citizen with concerns about health, which uses the internet as a resource, studying on his own illness, finding best centers, insisting on better treatments, providing information to other patients, and serving as collaborators of the doctors.

Medico.com offers an opportunity for the exchange of advice to users who want to share information health.

Medico.com allows health registered, well patients and/or professional users to exchange information and experiences on multiple disease health care. Medico.com is a bi-directional channel that patients can help with your data to the research, or provide experience and ideas for the improvement of health through him. Share, listen, learn are the keys to the success of web 2.0. The portal contains query information on dozens of disciplines as well as a blog to the community of users and a powerful platform for questions and answers with search tools. It’s a free and open web where can view, share information and ask questions in different areas or medical specialties.

Since its launch in July of this year, the portal has received more than 200,000 visitors to share information, an example of this is the page of Diabetes

Health 2.0: for more information, greater need for control

Internet, nowadays, is already the greatest method of provision and access to health information and its use generates benefits in the health of citizens, but also makes arising poured information security-related threats. Therefore, the professional supervision of all the contents to be discharged is accurate. According to Elan Dekel, founder of medico.com, one of the advantages of ‘ medico.com ’ is that the patient that comes with some knowledge about their condition, and informed consultation will have better questions to ask, will understand in greater depth what the doctor tries to explain it, and thus more likely to follow treatments given to their diagnosis with awareness ”.

About Dr. Jesús Sánchez Martos

Dr. Sánchez Martos will be along with the Manager of the portal in our country managers of content, opinions and information expressed in the portal because it will have to ensure compliance with regulations as well as advising the users in the correct use of consultation services offered in this community of questions and answers on health issues. Martos Sánchez, medical doctor and Professor of education for health at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, has a long career of twenty-three years linked to the media, a work that has been recognized with several awards for his informative career in favour of the health promotion and disease prevention. Awarded entity has been others l Prize Abumar of media and journalistic prize of the Spanish Heart Foundation. He is a collaborator with Lucas in RNE, also runs a daily space Buenos days Madrid of Telemadrid program called “Health Al Día”. He has directed the “Epidemic of health” programme on Radio outside of Spain, where he worked as a consultant physician in “Time America” and “Africa today” programmes. He has directed various health programmes on radio and television and is the author of many research papers in the area of education for health. His popular books include highlight “for time”, “How to face over the years to enjoy a healthy life”, where it picks up, with great informative character, all healthy tips that years trafficking in “catch” to the listeners and viewers of their interventions in the social media.

“A knowledgeable patient is easier that it can cure or control their illness and a person heals well informed, is much more difficult that you sick.” But having much information does not always mean being better informed. “My goal is to contribute with my advice to medico.com to be a clear reference of medical information of rigor and credibility” says Dr. Sanchez Martos.

About Medico.com

This project is supported by a medical team in the United States led by Dr. Julian Fisher, Professor of Harvard University as well as by Gilles Frydman, former President of the society for participatory medicine and spokesman for the more numerous and active Association of cancer in the United States, the ACOR. The Medico.com Advisory Council is composed of Esther Dyson (EDventure Holdings), Javier Saralegui (founder and former President / COO of Univision.com), and Gregg Zegras (President, RealAge Inc.). Medico.com is supported by companies such as First Round Capital, FirstMark Capital, Greylock, Nexus Venture Partners, and investors include David Friedberg (Watherbill counselor), Fabrice Grinda (Councillor of OLX), Jason Harinstein (Vice President of corporate development in information), Geoff judge (co-founder 24 / 7 Real Media and partner at iNovia Capital), and José Marín (IG expansion partner).