Vimovo is a new consumer health care site that allows you to search and locate health care providers and insurance in your local area. their belief is that the consumer should be more empowered to choose their providers and insurers that will benefit them and their families. Vimo will help to make buynig buying health care and insurance more transparent and more cost effective. Consumers can get objective and comprehensive shopping information for insurance, Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), medical procedures, doctors and dentists.
They have made a very user friendly site to be able to search by Zip code for your healthcare provider. You can also compare Health Care Savings Accounts (HSA) in your area to help in your decisions. They also provide a great tool to research and review various Health Care Providers (HCPs) in your area. The Vimo database contains over 650,000 Dr.’s and over 13,000 disciplinary actions. Each report on the HCP will contain, among other things, Board certifications, hospital affiliations, and any disciplinary actions.
(formerly known as Healia)is in the news and here is what some of those reports had to say:
Vimo (which thankfully just changed its name from Healthia) is a search tool aiming at allowing consumers to access doctors and insurers, and eventually medical products and services. CEO Chini Krishnan says Vimo is “a comparison shopping site like Lending Tree.” Health IT.com Octrober 9,2006