Over the past few years, the health-related blogosphere has grown in size and importance. This means that more people are blogging about medical issues, healthcare economics, policy and other topics. 

In order to better understand we health-bloggers, Envision Solutions and The Medical Blog Network (TMBN) have teamed up to conduct a survey to increase the overall understanding of the shape and size of the healthcare blogosphere.

In order to ensure the data collected is statistically valid, they need as many respondents as possible to take the Taking The Pulse Of The Healthcare Blogosphere Survey (it will take about 10 minutes to complete).  The survey is available now, and runs until September 29, 2006.

All respondents are able to part-take in the following perks by providing their email address at the end of the survey.

1.      Receive afree reporton the results of this survey.

2.      Be eligible to be one of ten randomly selected participants to receive a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate.

3.      Be one of five respondents selected to be profiled as part of the final survey results report.

So tell your fellow healthcare bloggers about the survey and complete the "Taking The Pulse Of The Healthcare Blogosphere" survey today.