TeleHealth Database

Database and Activity Goals

• To provide a reference library for educational purposes
• To be a guide for first aid and treatment in emergency situations
  • Acting in conjunction with the TeleHealth Module's ability to gather medical data
    • Give advise for first responders to a medical situation
      • Pictures, animations, simple questions, very user-friendly
      • Will take all available data (from questions and from TeleHealth Module) and advise in proper emergency treatment until doctor becomes available
      • Will consider all available resources in decision on how best to treat patient (likely without [m]any formal medical resources)
  • Via prompts and a specialized activity, parameterize medical information to reduce the workload of doctors, flagging individuals with the strongest needs.

All of the goals boil down to this one hope: to elongate and improve life

Expectations

• Will be helpful in situations where trained medical personnel are unavailable, overworked, or unreachable.
  • Not to be used in place of a doctor or other person trained in medicine

Implementation

• The suite will compose of the...
  • TeleHealth Reference Libary
    • Port of the XTerm Medical Database
    • Various relevant wikislices
  • Soft-Information Gathering Activity
    • Pictograph based multiple-choice questions
    • "click where it hurts..."
    • Parameterize medical/health information into machine parseable xml

Progress

• Ian Daniher 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.
• User:Pascal has started communication with the Hesperian Foundation, which provides elegantly written medical manuals to third world individuals.

Problems

• Legal liability, a hefty disclaimer may be needed.
• Doing this with limited medical background - can we find a doctor willing to help us out on this one?
• Testing - this will need plenty of testing to make sure everything is accurate and working before it is distributed
• Timeline - will likely take longer than will the TeleHealth Module to be completed
  • Can a basic version be completed in time to be distributed with the MP of the TeleHealth Module?

Data Sources

• 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://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notifiable_diseases
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diseases_caused_by_insects
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disorders
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illnesses_related_to_poor_nutrition
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_infectious_diseases
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_childhood_diseases
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_manuals
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis_codes
• http://www.shrinershq.org/Hospitals/Cincinnati/patients/
• http://www.merck.com/pubs/languages.html?manual=home
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ICD-9_codes_780-799:_Symptoms%2C_signs%2C_and_ill-defined_conditions
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10_Chapter_R:_Symptoms%2C_signs_and_abnormal_clinical_and_laboratory_findings

Contributors

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