MedTagger.com Frequently Asked Questions

  • MedTagger.com is a diabetes search portal where a community of medical professionals, diabetes educators, diabetes patients and their caregivers collaborate to identify and share content they consider valuable. Members benefit from collective wisdom of the community to find content that is identified as valuable.
  • MedTagger.com only indexes content from a selected subset of websites that are considered reputable. The balance of the content is added by members, one document at a time. Unlike the other popular search engines, MedTagger.com is designed to factor in community member interaction in its computation to determine what content should be ranked higher in search results. The higher the Popularity Index of a given document, the more likely it is to be ranked higher.
  • The Medtagger.com technology architecture can be used as a search platform for any chronic health information, or even for other non-health related topics and content. MedTagger.com will initially focus exclusively on diabetes related information.
  • Yes. There are plans to extend Medtagger.com support to other languages as well.
  • MedTagger.com membership is free.
  • The primary qualification that is required is direct and personal experience with diabetes. Registered medical professionals, diabetes educators, diabetes patients and their care givers are all qualified to become valuable contributors to the community.
  • Medical Professionals - refers to those members who belong to a regulated medical profession. Diabetes Educators refers to members who have the knowledge and qualification to offer valuable contribution regarding diabetes self-management.
  • Referrer code (invite code ) is a unique code that is associated with your membership number. You can send this referrer code when you invite others to join MedTagger.com. This code is used to track number of "followers" and also adds some weight to your Popularity Index.
  • Popularity Index is a number that is computed by MedTagger.com to represent the relative indicator of member interactions with MedTagger.com content and interactions with other members.
  • Document Popularity index is computed in similar fashion as that of member Pop Index. The more members with higher Pop Index tag and interact with a document the higher the Document Popularity Index.
  • Documents that are tagged by members who have higher Pop Index are assigned more points when computing Document Pop Index.
  • This is the list of the top taggers associated with the documents returned in the search results. If you enter a search term related to kidney problems, the Popular Taggers list helps you discover the top taggers who have tagged content related to diabetes and kidney disease.
  • Document tagging, or bookmarking, is a process of reviewing, selecting, classifying and contributing high value content by Medtagger.com membership. Each tagged document is tagged with classification indicating target audience and key topic area. Members can also add their own keywords or select from a suggested list of keywords that describe the content of each document.
  • To tag a document that you find within the MedTagger.com search results is pretty straight forward. Click on the "tag this" link under each search result, review the content and then click on the button to tag that document and include it in the list of your bookmarks that are shown in your home page.
  • Selecting what keywords to use to describe a document is up to each member. Whatever keyword describes the content for you is what you should enter. For content that is already indexed, a suggested list of terms is automatically generated to assist you with the keyword selection process.
  • Yes absolutely! MedTagger.com offers a platform where your high quality diabetes self-management content can break through the clutter of the internet and is presented to users.
  • You can copy the url of the document you want to tag, click on the "Tag Another Document" link, and paste the url along with your descriptive keywords and classification selections.
  • First tagger is the member who initially introduces a given content into the MadTagger.com index by tagging it. You can become the first tagger for any useful content you find anywhere in the internet.
  • Document popularity is influenced much more by other members tagging and interacting with a document than by the initial tagger.
  • Each tagged document offers and opportunity to read and provide comments on it. Comments are typically brief statements indicating why you felt the content was useful. Or questions an replies about the content.
  • The url to your home page can be accessed by entering www.medtagger.com/your_screen_name. Medical professionals and other diabetes educators can share this link with their patients to guide them to read their "information prescription" on diabetes-self management.
  • You can remove tagged document from your list by clicking on "remove-tag" link in under each document in your home page.
  • "Taggers Like Me" is used to find out what other members with similar profile like yourself are tagging. Member profile is developed based on profile information that is provided during registration plus Inference Engine computations indicating the topics each member is interested in.
  • Contact MedTagger.com webmaster to suggest a website for review and inclusion into the base set of reputable websites that are identified by our editors. This is a controlled list of websites and is deliberately kept at absolute minimum.
  • This is easily done by including a small html code fragment(see below) into your content footer section. This will then offer a handy prompt for your readers to tag your pages to MedTagger.com.