TeleHealth Database

TeleHealth Database Overview

• The small, compact database will function as both a diagnostic aid for untrained or uneducated people, and as a medical reference for doctors in third world countries, working in remote areas without access to formal medical resources.
• It will possibly be supplemented with Javascript/SVG based animations.
• It will eventually be composed of the:
  • central reference database
    • based on the XTerm Medical Dictionary
  • documentation for the TeleHealth Module
  • an expert-system diagnosis aid
    • Based on PyClips?
    • The biggest problem here is legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed.
    • User:DyD has collected some diagnosis aids used by a local hospital.

Ian Daniher has been corresponding with Aurelian, creator of XTerm Medical Dictionary, and he has graciously offered to license the database allow OLPC and direct affiliates access and an ability to freely distribute it.

Contributors

• Ian Daniher
• Steven Burns
• Zdenek Broz
• The XTerm Medical Dictionary Contributors
  • A. S. Ivan, M.D.
    • Christoph Champ
    • Y.A. Hamed M.D.
    • Madalina Marin, D.D.S
    • Sam Vaknin

Resources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Health_Organization_Essential_Medicines
• http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/
• http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php
• http://www.medical-dictionary.ro/index.html
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Human_Physiology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice/Medical
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THM_:_DB