Hungary launches its first “website hospital”

Hungary's first private, profit making “website hospital” has gone on line, offering free medical advice from some 50 practitioners from 11 specialties. The doctors will also provide consultations with patients in person, if necessary, for which they will be paid.

The website—www.netkorhaz.hu/ (“korhaz” is Hungarian for hospital)—was the brainchild of gynaecologist Dr Gyula Csermely, …