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=TeleHealth Database Overview=
A diagnostic aid for untrained or uneducated people working in remote areas without access to formal medical care.
* 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.
Ideally will be largely picture-based, with easy-to-use interface
* It will possibly be supplemented with Javascript/SVG based animations.

* It will eventually be composed of the:
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* [[User:DyD]] has collected some diagnosis aids used by a local hospital.
** central reference database
* [[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)
*** based on the XTerm Medical Dictionary
* A very simple pygtk/xml based activity could be made using if/elseif clauses to mimic a diagnostic flowchart.
** documentation for the TeleHealth Module
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* The biggest problem here is legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed.
** an expert-system diagnosis aid

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*** The biggest problem here is legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed.
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Ian Daniher has been corresponding with Aurelian, creator of [http://medical-dictionary.ro XTerm_Medical_Dictionary]
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*** [[User:DyD]] has collected some diagnosis aids used by a local hospital.

"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"


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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.


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




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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice/Medical
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice/Medical
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THM_:_DB
* 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


[[Category:Health]]
[[Category:Health]]

Revision as of 15:57, 21 November 2007

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
      • 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
  • 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

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