TeleHealth Database

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
    • Based on PyClips?
    • 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
• Zdenek Broz
• 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

• 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