Getting the word on STDs online
A Chicago company is offering a Web-based product that not only
provides information about sexually transmitted diseases, but also
offers testing even if consumers do not have health insurance or a
primary care physician.
“They can talk to us and be in a testing
center in 15 minutes,” said Julie Springer the general manager of
Analyte Media, the company behind STDtestExpress.com.
The use of
the Internet for this service is part of a movement known as Health 2.0
that provides Web-based tools to help consumers take control of their
health and health care options.
The company takes precautions to protect the consumer’s privacy on
the site and in the lab, going to far as to send the results e-mail
from the non-descript “PNH Services.” According to the
STDtestExpress.com, their labs test people for many conditions, so
anyone else in the waiting room wouldn’t know why the consumer was
there. The entire process is completed within three days.
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