Welcome to OnHealth.com
We've re-built this site from the ground up, with a whole new staff of journalists. And we've done it for one reason: There's a revolution going on in health care and we intend to take part in it.
Your health and the health care you receive is no longer something that just happens to you. With the advent of managed care and the disappearance of that family doctor who knew you from the time you were a baby through to your own babies, you've had to change your approach from simple acceptance to active participation. Now the responsibility for knowing how to live better and stay healthier, the responsibility for getting not just adequate, but the right care through a bureaucracy that often stands in your way, rests with you and only you.
Shouldn't you have access to the best health information available? Shouldn't you know your rights as a member of an HMO or any health plan? Shouldn't you know about the latest treatments and developments that affect your health?
And shouldn't the Internet be the perfect environment for keeping up with what you need to know, doing deep research, finding experts and others who are going through what you are? Shouldn't the technology allow you to make the most of the resources on the Web in a much more personally relevant way?
The answer is yes, and we think you're right to expect a lot from an environment as rich in information, as powerful for communication, and as technologically sophisticated as the Internet. We also know how critical it is for you to arm yourself with the information you need to make better health decisions and be aggressive advocates for your own health with a bureaucracy that makes you fight for your rights.
So, here's what we've done about it.
Check out the Personal Health Tracker. It helps you create a personal place for searching and saving information that's important to you. It searches a carefully selected universe of trustworthy health and medical resources on the Web on a daily basis and let's you know when something new is found.
Health happens where you live, so go to our City Health Guides for local health information, resources, and support.
Need to know? Want to keep up? Look to our In-Depth Reports, Columnists, and Daily Briefings, for the kind of aggressive, in-depth coverage of the important and complex issues you need to know about to better manage your health and your family's health.
Have you or someone you care about been diagnosed with a condition? Do you need to research it? Conditions A-Z will help you get started and dynamically link you to deeper information, resources, or support groups available at OnHealth.com and beyond.
There is all this and much more at the new OnHealth.com. We intend to be there every day, aggressively covering the issues, providing the best local health information, giving you access to experts and support groups, expanding and updating our deep databases of medical and health reference material, and giving you the personalized tools and services for making the most of what this site and the Internet have to offer.
Please feel free to e-mail me directly with your thoughts and suggestions after having visited the site. We intend to be your best health resource on the web.
