Telehealth module database

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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


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