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From: WEGO Dan on 15 Oct 2007 09:05
Hi Everyone,

My name is Dan, and I am the Allergy & Asthma Community Administrator
at WEGO Health. As you know, there is so much health information on
the Web that it can be overwhelming when people try and search for
accurate resources. Our website recently launched and our mission is
to identify, rank, and organize the most helpful health and wellness
content online and make it easy to access by everyone. We need the
help of people like you, with real experience with these topics, to
review the material and help us decide what information is most
helpful. We can then organize the rated content and provide the public
with only the most useful articles to save them time. Pulling
together good health information is definitely a team effort.



Our mission is articulated very nicely here:

http://www.wegohealth.com/about-us.html



Below are a few pages that our research team has pulled together on
food allergies. As I mentioned previously, all of the content on our
site can be rated and reviewed by community members. We also have
discussion forums.



Peanut Allergy

http://allergy.wegohealth.com/peanut-allergy.html?searchterm=peanut-allergy


Baby Food Allergy

http://allergy.wegohealth.com/baby-food-allergy.html


Milk Allergy

http://allergy.wegohealth.com/milk-allergy.html?searchterm=milk-allergy

I'm wondering if anyone in this group would be interested in reviewing
some of the asthma-related materials on WEGO Health. Please let me
know if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions.

Thanks in advance for checking out these links and I hope to hear back
from you soon.

Cheers,

Dan

From: Beth Kevles on 15 Oct 2007 13:18
Hi --

I like the idea of a consumer PLUS medical refereed source for medical
information. The one page I looked at (milk allergy) wasn't very
helpful, though.

The three links listed led to some information that was misleading, and
never to complete information.

I'd like to see a way to suggest links on the topic, which can then be
vetted by your medical expert to exclude misinformation, and then an
easy way to vote on different web sites, perhaps like people can vote on
books at amazon.com and other web sites.

Interesting concept .... I'll be interested in seeing where it goes.

--Beth Kevles
bethkevles(a)gmail.PUT-THE-COM-HERE
http://web.mit.edu/kevles/www/nomilk.html -- a page for the milk-allergic
Disclaimer: Nothing in this message should be construed as medical
advice. Please consult with your own medical practicioner.

NOTE: No email is read at my MIT address. Use the GMAIL one if you would
like me to reply.
From: WEGO Dan on 18 Oct 2007 03:44
On Oct 15, 10:18 am, kev...(a)mit.edu (Beth Kevles) wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I like the idea of a consumer PLUS medical refereed source for medical
> information. The one page I looked at (milk allergy) wasn't very
> helpful, though.
>
> The three links listed led to some information that was misleading, and
> never to complete information.
>
> I'd like to see a way to suggest links on the topic, which can then be
> vetted by your medical expert to exclude misinformation, and then an
> easy way to vote on different web sites, perhaps like people can vote on
> books at amazon.com and other web sites.
>
Hi Beth,

Thanks very much for your feedback. Every WEGO page is a work in
progress, and the ability for anybody to suggest links is an integral
part of that. The site is currently in BETA, but we're very close to
implementing a redesign that will make submitting a link very easy,
and the option will be prominently displayed. Anybody can also rate
and comment on each resource, and resources that are rated highly will
be featured, while those that people don't find useful will be
replaced. People can also discuss the resources in the forums, and
WEGO's research team regularly interacts with the community there.

I personally think it's a very exciting concept, and I'm eager to hear
more feedback. Incidentally, I also thought the milk allergy page was
one of the weaker pages on the site, and I already mentioned that to
the research team. I'm eager to see how that page in particular, and
the topic pages in general, change as more people begin to suggest new
links and rate the existing ones. By the way, have you gotten a
chance to look at any of the other food allergy pages? If so, what
did you think?

Thanks again for the feedback!

Dan

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