Medpedia – Coming Soon to a Screen Near You.
July 29, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Announcements, Media, Medicine, Misc., Morning News Fix
There’s a new kid in town and it’s name is Medpedia.
It has been described as the ‘world’s largest collaborative online encycopedia of medicine’ and it’s easy to see why. The brainchild of James Currier, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Medpedia is being developed in conjunction leading Medical Schools (Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and Michigan) and leading global health organizations such as the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Oxford Health Alliance (OxHA.org), the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies, (FOCIS), and the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA).
Medipedia promises to deliver free relevant, reliable, and up-to-date medical information written and edited by volunteer medical doctors or experts with Ph.D. degrees.
Accurate medical facts at your fingertips – what more could you ask for.
Sounds like a winner.
Full launch of the site is expected at the end of the year. Meanwhile you can see a preview of things to come at http://medpedia.com
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The thing I find troubling is how to you make sure the information is factual? Do you setup an authority for each subject, and require edits/inclusions to pass through that person/test? Considering this is a relatively important site compared to articles you would find in wikipedia, is there any extra safety measure provided by medipedia that allows for accurate, relevant, and reliable results?
Good point. I understand that all the articles etc will be peer reviewed.
There’s some confusion here. The project you describe is Medpedia (no “i” between the d and p). The link you provide takes one to Medipedia.com which is a different project altogether. I can’t tell who is behind medipedia.com so, as a medical librarian, I would not recommend that site. Medpedia looks much more promising, but we’ll have to wait and see when it is finally launched. The confusion between the two names is unfortunate.
Hey T Scott, thanks so much for picking up on that….wow — big difference in sites and also in reliablity in knowledge…
Have corrected the typos and also added new post for anyone who I might have accidently mis-lead.
Again, thanks much.