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WELCOME TO THE MHS SITE!
This booklet is designed to help you work your way through the MHS website.
The following sections are covered:
1. WHAT'S AVAILABLE ON THE MAIN SECTION OF THE INTERNET
2. INTRODUCTION TO THE MHS SITE
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1. WHAT'S AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET
The home page gives a brief description of MHS and what we do. The shortcuts on the left of your screen eases navigation to the main sections of the site, and assist you queries and searches. On your right the scrolling shortcut menu will take you to the latest news items on the website. These articles are updated from Monday to Friday. The main menu is located at the top of the screen and you can use these drop down menus to go to all the web pages of our site.
2. INTRODUCTION TO THE MHS SITE
The following is the home page of the Internet.:
The address of the MHS home page, for outside users, is
www.mhs.co.za. Type this into your address bar in your Internet Browser, and you will be brought to the home page.We have designed the Internet page to be exciting and user-friendly. This is achieved through the following:
Drop-down menu's
Quick links
LHS menu's
Help and FAQ's
Some of the facilities are available to all visitors, but the facilities you will be using most often are login-protected.
Security on the site is of vital importance & is very tight.
If you ever get lost in the web, there are site maps available!
This section offers details about the following:
MHS's Vision / Mission
Corporate Profile / Offering
The MHS group
Clients
The Team: Here we have listed the key personnel in the organisation, with their CV's attached.
Our clients each have a page on the web as well.
They can elect what they want placed on their page and, if they have a website, we will link to it (through their logo)
MHS's product offering is varied and each service can be implemented on its own, or consolidated into a 'complete solution'. This modular system enables MHS to tailor the solutions to our clients' needs. The services are:
The Medical Forum is in the process of becoming one of the most valuable sections of the site. It will incorporate a vast spectrum of information for doctors, as well as the general public.
How to Use this Section
With the growth of this section in mind, we felt it would be necessary to offer guidelines to users about the facilities available. This will ensure their getting the most out of what's available.
News
Updated regularly, this feature will keep users up-to-date with current issues in the medical industry. View the current- past/archived articles.
Statistics
Here you can view a variety of statistics - charts and graphs. Browse the current statistics or refer to older results on the Past Statistics page
Condition / treatment Information and Education
This will ultimately be the most detailed section of the Medical Forum. It is growing and developing constantly. Here you can view basic information, training, useful sites and journal articles relating to each listed condition in the developing database.
Info for Patients
Information is made available to patients, to assist with the identification, basic remedies and education about common conditions. You will be able to view the basic information on the condition, as well as visit related websites and articles, where available.
Please offer input here when you come across something, which could be useful to add!
Journal Articles
Our consultants and in-house specialists assist us with the selection of articles from a variety of reputable international and local journals. Links to these are made available, as well as brief comments on the articles. Within the growing Condition / Treatment Info-Education section, condition-specific articles are available.
MHS-Associate training Courses
MHS is involved with a few select training courses, and the details of these will be published here.
Medical Congresses
Here you can view schedules of congresses and other events in which our users might be interested.
Useful Websites
In our quest to become the most extensive and comprehensive medical information portal, a number of varied website links are available.
Please advise the Webmaster if you are aware of any sites that would be valuable to add.
DocChat Forum
Medical Practitioners have a great deal to share with one another - academic knowledge, experiences, debates and questions. Use this forum to pose questions, initiate discussions or comment on existing topics. (NB: practitioners must register with us in order to take part in this forum.)
This is like a 'chat-room' for doctors, to discuss any topics they choose / initiate.
So basically the Medical forum is ideally to become the 'one-stop portal to the medical world'. There are several initiatives planned for this section and it will be growing constantly.
We like our site to be interactive - we want to hear from our visitors as well as being able to give them information.
This page details our physical-, postal- and other contact details.
They can also click on "Webmaster". This will send an email directly to the Webmaster.
These emails are dealt with as they arrive - allocated to the personnel who need to deal with it, and the details of the message captured in a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet generates charts and statistics of the messages received - how many are received and what the queries are. This will enable us to spot trends in problems / queries.
Please complete the Feedback form - we value your input.
This link enables the user to login / register with us.
We have placed these buttons and links in several places on the site -
WE WANT YOU TO USE THE SITE!! ☺
Every practitioner who has registered, have logins:
Username
User type
Password
Once you are logged in, you have access to information that is specific to your needs.
When a doctor wishes to have access to his profiles / reports, he can fill out the registration form and he / she will be contacted with these login details.
How do I get my own user login and password?
Your login, consisting of your user name, user type and password, enables you, the user (practice / network manager etc...) to access the profiling reports of your practice / those reviewed by you. You are also granted access to other facilities such as the DocChat forum. If you would like to obtain your login you need to register with us. The registration form is a brief questionnaire, which you can fill in quickly on the website. You will then be contacted to confirm your details and given your login details
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Sometimes the users / visitors may need clarity or further information regarding the website and other issues.
The FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions) page offers information on
The functionality of the website
Website navigation
MHS's services
The sub-structures and services MHS utilises / offers
MHS's physical location (map)
Etc..
Have you ever been to a website and got so deeply embroiled in their pages that you forget where to find the information you actually went there for in the first place!?!
We have tried to make sure that you are never more than 2 clicks away from where you want to be, but just to make sure, there is a site map available.
This is not only informative - telling you how the site hangs together, but there are links directly to the pages, so you can just find your destination on the site map and click on it - Voila!
If you are ever lost in the site and need to get back to where you can see the site map, just click on the MHS logo in the top left-hand corner. This is a HOME link.
(Clicking on this logo will also take you out of the logged-in sections, so if you use it to get 'Home' you will have to log in again to go back to the sub-systems).
This document is MHS's commitment to ensure integrity of information as far as is possible, and also to ensure that those sites and sources, from which information is published, are properly acknowledged.
It is also important in the current e-commercial environment to protect you - the information we publish is very often obtained from outside sources. Medical information that leads to users' adverse reactions to suggested treatments could lead to serious legal ramifications for MHS.
This is why we acknowledge EVERYTHING that we put on the site, and only use reputable sources.
The disclaimer is important for informing the users that MHS is not liable for the information written by others (provided we acknowledge the source). We are, in these cases, a portal for the information rather than the creators of it.
If you would like to search for information on the site, using a keyword / phrase, you can do so here.
It works in exactly the same way as the Internet search engines - you can look for exact matches or matches containing the words in no particular order.
Results are listed in order of Rank - how well it matches the query. Rank ranges from 1 - 1000, with larger numbers reflecting a better match.
The Condition / Treatment information and education and Patient Information in the Medical Forum has a search facility specifically for that specific section. So doctors can search their own list without having to scroll down, and 'Patients' can do the same in their section.
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