The iMedicor Web portal, which went live on October 10, 2007, is online personal health data exchange and secure messaging portal for physician collaboration, community and referrals. iMedicor reached its 32,000th physician registration on December 12, 2007. It has been discussed in such journals as Healthcare Informatics, Advance for Health Information Professionals,Advance for Health Information Professionals.
/ref> Virtual Medical Worlds, and Highway Hypodermics among others and received positive review by the Internet journal Medgadget. The portal's

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-compliant technology and ability to enable health providers to exchange

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data, documentation and images distinguish it from chat-room-style portals for the

medical community Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practice ...

. The launch of iMedicor's portal coincides with the entrance of Microsoft's

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and

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into the

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space. Some of iMedicor's partner associations include the

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(ABC), the American Society for Hypertension (ASH), and the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCA).

References

iMedicor Announces Agreement With eRx Network - Thursday, December 06, 2007; Posted: 09:00 AM January 14, 2008, 09:06 AM Eastern Time - American Society of Hypertension Partners with iMedicor - Online Medical Portal Tapped to Help Expand Hypertension Initiative

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