Finding health information on the Internet -- whether specific details about a disease or other people who have suffered from similar ailments-- is a red hot area right now.

So far this week, I have reported on the Bellevue search engine Healia being sold to publishing giant Meredith, the new investment team at Seattle health-oriented social network Trusera (formerly PeerWisdom) and, courtesy of VentureBeat, a new round of funding at a health site called DailyStrength.

It is only Tuesday. But the news keeps flowing.

The latest entrant is HealthCare.com, a startup with offices in Bellevue and Miami that today is announcing $6.1 million in venture funding. Interestingly, the chairman of the company is Rob Monster -- who left Global Market Insite in February somewhat unexpectedly. In fact, GMI was in the news Monday because it named former Loudeye and Sierra On-Line Chief Executive Michael Brochu CEO, filling the post vacated by Monster.

Strange timing that Monster -- who has been involved with HealthCare.com for the past month as an angel investor -- turns up in a press release about the startup a day after the GMI news.

Monster, who still holds 30 percent of GMI and sits on its board, tells me that it is just a coincidence. And the 39-year-old, who has formed a new venture capital firm called Monster Venture Partners, said he is doing more angel investments in the health care and online marketing arenas. (More to come on that in a later post).

In fact, Monster has sunk $1.2 million into HealthCare.com -- not a small sum.

Launched last December after the executive team purchased the domain name HealthCare.com, the startup says that "vertical search, online medical records and community features" will be part of the Web site. Monster, who calls the HealthCare.com founders "Internet rock stars in Latin America," said the company will have a global focus on healthcare information. It also will have a dual headquarters in Miami and Bellevue, he said.

"Our goal is to create a new consumer-driven health experience – one that is not currently available. We will be giving individuals the power to take greater control of their health decisions while also enabling the healthcare professionals to evolve to a more sustainable economic model," said Monster in a press release to be issued today at the Dow Jones Healthcare Innovations Conference in San Francisco.

The domain name HealthCare.com has been in use before, with a publicly-traded Georgia company taking on that name in April 2000. It was acquired by Xcare.net of Englewood, Colorado in 2001.