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A diagnostic aid for untrained or uneducated people working in remote areas without access to formal medical care.
Ideally will be largely picture-based, with easy-to-use interface

* [[User:DyD]] has collected some diagnosis aids used by a local hospital.
* [[User:ZdenekBroz]] has been working on a wikislice of relevant medical information (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice/Medical, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THM_:_DB)
* A very simple pygtk/xml based activity could be made using if/elseif clauses to mimic a diagnostic flowchart.
* The biggest problem here is legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed.

Ian Daniher has been cooresponding with Aurelian, creator of [http://medical-dictionary.ro XTerm_Medical_Dictionary]

"Ian,

I will agree to make this database available free of any charge to your team working for OLPC with a simple condition. I would like formal assurance that third parties don't have access to this database except through the application you create. I had to encrypt it years ago after I noticed several individuals stealing all the definitions to create websites. Every other month I receive requests to sell it. I do not plan to sell it, because I want not to be used for profit. Let's find a way to do this properly and I will be glad to help colleagues from other countries that will use your application.

Best wishes,
Aurelian"





===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

If interested in contributing, editing, or providing general assistance, contact either Ian Daniher at it.daniher(at)gmail.com or Steve Burns at steven.burns(at)case.edu

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Latest revision as of 22:38, 23 January 2008

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