TeleHealth Database: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 21:15, 24 November 2007

To act in conjunction with the TeleHealth Module's ability to gather medical data
- Take data from TeleHealth Module to assist in diagnosis
To be a medical diagnostic aid for use by people with little to no medical education or training
- Pictures, simple questions, very user-friendly
- Will take all available data (from questions and from TeleHealth Module) and formulate probable diagnoses
To be a clear, concise guide to first aid and emergent care for use by people with little to no medical education or training
- Animations, user-friendly to the extreme
- Will use data to formulate best treatment options
  - Will consider all available resources in decision on how best to treat patient (likely without many/any formal medical resources)
To act as a medical reference

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

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

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.

Sheer volume of work - thousands of diseases/ailments/injuries to classify, code, and document
The biggest problem here is 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?
- Will be in a perpetual state of needing improvement, as medical advances keep changing the face of medicine
  - Is someone that is able to keep up with medical advances willing to commit to supporting long-term updates?

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 ==Expectations==
-* Will be helpful in situations where trained medical personnel are either unavailable or unreachable.
+* 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==