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By: blog.e-healthgr | Medpedia, ιατρική εγκυκλοπαίδεια τύπου wikipedia

blog.e-healthgr | Medpedia, ιατρική εγκυκλοπαίδεια τύπου wikipedia — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:28:44 +0000

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By: Ultrasound Equipment

Ultrasound Equipment — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:22:05 +0000

Thanks to the article, well thought out. I searched for a while to find the right answer to my questions!

By: heyjudeseattle

heyjudeseattle — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:47:07 +0000

Is there really a shortage of expert medical opinion on the Web? We’ve got PubMed and Google Scholar for scholarly journals. WebMD, MayoClinic, and RevolutionHealth all provide varying degrees of expert advice. The list goes on and on. I hope that MedPedia avoids becoming another walled garden of content by and for doctors. Instead, I’d love to see a well-moderated, mash-up of evidence-based medicine and consumer experience. That would be new!

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Healthcare Economist · Wikipedia for Medicine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:37:22 +0000

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Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:53:23 +0000

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By: Medical ‘Wikipedia’ Is Looking For a Few Good Doctors

Medical ‘Wikipedia’ Is Looking For a Few Good Doctors — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:11:23 +0000

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Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:18:14 +0000

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By: BioMedical Science » Blog Archive » Medical ‘Wikipedia’ Is Looking For a Few Good Doctors

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:26:46 +0000

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Health Blog : Medical 'Wikipedia' Is Looking For a Few Good Doctors — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:46:59 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:26:11 +0000

I require a site where I can look up persistent adverse events/effects sufferred post chemotherapy treatment. As an example*, my wife, for breast cancer, was treated with CMF chemo drugs. Due to severe adverse reactions this treatment was abandoned at the halfway stage. Pre treatment for 61 years she did not have heartburn (reflux) but during and post treatment she had persistent severe refractory reflux that did not respond to drugs and eventually required anti-reflux surgery. Pre surgery it was found that her stomach produced more than double the normal amount of acid [plus other defects]. I cannot find a causal link that the chemo drugs caused the abnormal acid increase. For my medical insurer to accept a claim (iotrogenic injury) of less than 1%, I must provide the research material and this is very hard to find. Living in a small closed community like New Zealand, it is not so easy to obtain assistance from the medical profesionals. Tom Cawood Auckland NZ
* also persistent episodic refractory nausea and formation of cataracts.

By: Michiel van der Blonk

Michiel van der Blonk — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:03:55 +0000

Nice. Now what I really need is an online expert system that knows all this information and guides me through a diagnostic process. Then I buy the meds on ebay and I won’t have to go to the doctor ever again! Ok that’s not serious but yes an expert system (simple decision tree) would be very insightful.

By: MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space « Weblibraryjpn’s Weblog

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:33:07 +0000

[...] MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space(July 23, 2008 TechCrunch) MedPedia is a new project, currently in development, that will offer an online collaborative medical encyclopedia for use by the general public. [...]

By: MedicalWriter

MedicalWriter — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:53:12 +0000

Great idea, but have you ever read anything written by an MD? Usually not very pretty. Not to mention understandable by the average person.

By: Adrian Midgley

Adrian Midgley — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:30:49 +0000

http://ganfyd.org has been doing something quite similar for a couple of years now.

The licence is carefully thought out, and subtly different.

We have not had any trouble with infighting, unlike the dafter parts of WP.

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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:48:32 +0000

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TechCrunch: MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space « TechJews.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:52:06 +0000

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:21:51 +0000

I hope this works. Another new medical site that also allows people to contribute information is RareShare (http://www.RareShare.org). This one focuses on rare diseases, not general health, and also has a social networking dimension to it…

By: Kamic

Kamic — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:33:00 +0000

I would defiantly use this site as I have problems with my pancreas; I can’t seem to find information with reliable sources. For example I found that some sites say my life expectancies anywhere from 5 years to a normal life span. How can it be so varied? Our health care system needs to have more research completed at home to not only help themselves but help the doctors down the right path.

By: Israel

Israel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:26:55 +0000

The fact that they will police the information posted by Md and Phd’s is excellent I look forward to seeing more from medpedia. I agree with Udo that the insider materials will help wikpedia.

By: Udo

Udo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:13:53 +0000

Having only professionals edit content may alleviate spam, but it will do nothing (quite the opposite) to prevent bickering and infighting, occasionally accompanied by displays of gross incompetence. And when this occurs, people won’t be able to step in and repair stuff the way it’s done on Wikipedia.

Another “problem” is that this site is targeted at consumers with a mere high-school level education. I don’t see how it can be a useful tool for the scientific community even if they introduce a separate category of pages they call “more technical” info.

But since this is all available for free under a GNU license i’m hoping useful content can be smarted up and then backported into Wikipedia where it belongs. Especially tons of PD diagrams and image material that MedPedia seems to have liberated from some institutions.

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Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:37 +0000

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By: John S.

John S. — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:54:03 +0000

According to Jimmy Wales, the biggest hurdle is “monitoring and deleting spam.” The most cost-effective solution is to create a big enough community to sustain it at the outset.

As Josh says, if people are not able to update it, it’s just a website.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:23:35 +0000

So how do they verify that the contributors have a degree? Its not really a wiki if not everyone can edit…its just a website.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:59:06 +0000

I remember a post a few months saying Google was planning something very similar to this (credentialed contributors, etc.).

By: Michael Kimsal

Michael Kimsal — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:49:40 +0000

There will likely be more competition in this space in the coming years. Given the information overload out there in specific industries, there’s no way for doctors to keep up with all of it. There’s a distinction between ‘misinformation’ and ‘unknown information’.

I was in a situation a couple years ago where a family membe was being treated by an older physician, and later a younger physician was added to the mix. The younger physician was taken aback that numerous other treatments weren’t attempted. The older physician had dismissed them as ‘too risky’, and in some cases simply wan’t aware of them. In most cases he simply didn’t have all the current information on the treatments. With the newer treatments my family member is doing much better, probably added another 5-10 years to their life, but that was mostly due to a chance encounter with someone who had newer information.

This situation is probably played out around the globe far more than we’d like, and if projects like these can help people in their research, I’m all for it.