The American Dental Association (ADA) has joined forces with Sharecare which is a new online resource that invites the public to submit health-related questions and have them answered by health professionals.
The website was created by Mehmet Oz, MD, a physician who first began fielding questions on The Oprah Show and now hosts The Dr. Oz Show, and Jeff Arnold, founder of WebMD.
Investors include Harpo Productions, which produces Oprah Winfrey’s talk show, and Discovery Communications. Sharecare’s goal is to provide precise, clear and concise health information from different perspectives so as to give people a chance to get the right information so as to go on and make the right decision for their dental and oral health.
Sharecare will go on to provide a platform for the American Dental Association to provide essential information from multiple points of view and provide consumers with vital and much needed resources.
This is one very good platform to bring the voice of dentists to the millions of people and give them a point wherein they will be privy to the best of health answers that deal with dental care. This will help the patients be able to achieve the best of dental health and get information that is credible and they can rely on. This will be the perfect guiding step to the travails that patients might face otherwise.
Oral health will be among 48 topics covered on the site. People can ask questions that are based on cancers, fitness and exercise and mental health among many other areas.
ADA and Sharecare will immediately collaborate to add ADA answers to visitor questions about oral health and dental care.
Sharecare was founded in 2009 and is based in Atlanta. Its mission is to greatly make things easier the search for high-quality healthcare information and answer the world’s questions about health.