Religare Technologies Launches HealthLine24x7.com

The tech arm of the financial services group, Religare, Religare Technologies has launched health information portal and voice service HealthLine24x7.com. The website is an online repository of health information. The company also offers a helpline service that can also be accessed over the phone.

According to Express Healthcare, HealthLine24x7.com is free and the purpose is to empower people with reliable, relevant and in-depth health information.

"HealthLine 24x7 provides a perfect fit towards achieving this cause. It allows people to access our information bank and health assistants/experts at any given point in time through our website as well as our number," Pankaj Vaish, President, Religare Technologies said in a statement.

The website has information on diseases, symptoms, possible treatments, alternative treatments, medicines, probable side effects of medicines. Using the search feature, users can identify local specialists in five cities - Delhi/NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru.

The website offers a Live Help chat section where users can chat with medical practitioners and receive answers to their health queries, however, when we checked the website, there were none available for an interaction.

It also offers a tool called Symptom Specialist.

The website also caters to the healthcare provider community and has a forum where healthcare providers and doctors can communicate with colleagues, peers and patients. Doctors can also create and personalize websites and gain access to medical references as well as keep in touch with the latest scientific research and treatment break-through on the website.