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 emergent treatment until doctor becomes available
      • Will consider all available resources in decision on how best to treat patient (likely without many/any formal medical resources)

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

• It will possibly be supplemented with Javascript/SVG based animations.
• It will eventually be composed of the:
  • an expert-system diagnosis aid
    • Based on PyClips?
  • central reference database
    • based on the XTerm Medical Dictionary
  • documentation for the TeleHealth Module

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.

Problems

• Sheer volume of work - thousands of diseases/ailments/injuries to classify, code, and document
• 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/

Resources for Project Implementation

• http://www3.us.elsevierhealth.com/WOW/facesPermission.html
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library_grid
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_content_bundle
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_an_Activity
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Bundles
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikislice

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