Australian Doctors Join European Network

European physician community Networks in Health has announced an alliance with Australian counterpart e-healthspace.com.au , expanding its medical research resource by 9,000 doctors.

Networks in Health was formed by Doctors.net.uk, the UK's largest online network of medical professionals, in May this year. The 600,000 strong European community comprises partnerships with Egora and La Revue du Praticien in France, Medcenter in Spain and Portugal, coliquio in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and MedUniverse in Sweden - and has plans for further expansion.

The Australian community's 9,000 members represent approximately 45% of the total population of general practitioners. Usage of the community is high, and some 40% of members interact with clinical content, discussion forums, education modules and sponsored resources on a regular basis.

medeConnect, Networks in Health's market research and insight partner, is an independent division of Doctors.net.uk and supplies clients with a range of new, digitally-based qual and quant methodologies for gathering insight from these communities.

Gareth Thomas, Development Director of Networks in Health, said: 'The launch of this 'network of communities' is answering a real need, especially for organisations wishing to research and engage with physicians internationally.'

Kamalesh Goswami, Director of Online Solutions of e-healthspace.com.au, said: 'We are now able to offer clients a single access point to a huge international physician audience. It opens up enormous opportunities, with international communications, marketing, education and research programmes all capable of being managed and measured in a fully integrated way.'

Web sites: www.medeconnect.net , www.networksinhealth.com and www.e-healthspace.com.au .