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#REDIRECT [[Health_Database]] |
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==Database and Activity Goals== |
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* To provide a reference library for educational purposes |
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* To be a guide for first aid and treatment in emergency situations |
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** Acting in conjunction with the [[TeleHealth Module]]'s ability to gather medical data |
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*** Give advise for first responders to a medical situation |
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**** Pictures, animations, simple questions, very user-friendly |
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**** Will take all available data (from questions and from [[TeleHealth Module]]) and advise in proper emergency treatment until doctor becomes available |
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**** Will consider all available resources in decision on how best to treat patient (likely without [m]any formal medical resources) |
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** Via prompts and a specialized activity, parameterize medical information to reduce the workload of doctors, flagging individuals with the strongest needs. |
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All of the goals boil down to this one hope: to elongate and improve life |
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==Expectations== |
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* Will be helpful in situations where trained medical personnel are unavailable, overworked, or unreachable. |
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** Not to be used in place of a doctor or other person trained in medicine |
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==Implementation== |
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* The suite will compose of the... |
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** TeleHealth Reference Libary |
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*** Port of the XTerm Medical Database |
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*** Various relevant wikislices |
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** Soft-Information Gathering Activity |
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*** Pictograph based multiple-choice questions |
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*** "click where it hurts..." |
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*** Parameterize medical/health information into machine parseable xml |
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==Progress== |
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* Ian Daniher has collected some diagnosis aids used by a local hospital. |
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* Ian Daniher has been corresponding with Aurelian, creator of [http://medical-dictionary.ro 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. |
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* [[User:Pascal]] has started communication with the Hesperian Foundation, which provides elegantly written medical manuals to third world individuals. |
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==Problems== |
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<!--* Sheer volume of work - thousands of diseases/ailments/injuries to classify, code, and document --> |
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* Legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed. |
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* Doing this with limited medical background - can we find a doctor willing to help us out on this one? |
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* Testing - this will need plenty of testing to make sure everything is accurate and working before it is distributed |
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* Timeline - will likely take longer than will the [[TeleHealth Module]] to be completed |
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** Can a basic version be completed in time to be distributed with the MP of the [[TeleHealth Module]]? |
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==Data Sources== |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Health_Organization_Essential_Medicines |
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* http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/ |
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* http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php |
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* http://www.medical-dictionary.ro/index.html |
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* http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Human_Physiology |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice/Medical |
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* http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notifiable_diseases |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diseases_caused_by_insects |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disorders |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illnesses_related_to_poor_nutrition |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_infectious_diseases |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_childhood_diseases |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_manuals |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis_codes |
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* http://www.shrinershq.org/Hospitals/Cincinnati/patients/ |
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* http://www.merck.com/pubs/languages.html?manual=home |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ICD-9_codes_780-799:_Symptoms%2C_signs%2C_and_ill-defined_conditions |
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10_Chapter_R:_Symptoms%2C_signs_and_abnormal_clinical_and_laboratory_findings |
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==Contributors== |
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* Ian Daniher |
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* Steven Burns |
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* Zdenek Broz |
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* Pascal Scheffers |
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* The XTerm Medical Dictionary Contributors |
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** A. S. Ivan, M.D. |
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*** Christoph Champ |
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*** Y.A. Hamed M.D. |
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*** Madalina Marin, D.D.S |
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*** Sam Vaknin |
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[[Category:Health]] |
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