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May 17, 2006
Doctors, Help Us Heal Ourselves
I just learned about a fascinating initiative in which 20 global health organizations and universities are working with IBM to see whether an open-source approach might help clip the wings of bird flu.
Building on the work of Larry Brilliant, the initiative will tap IBM's Interoperable Healthcare Information Infrastructure and Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler, which will involve an open-source community of epidemiologists exploring how diseases spread.
Posted by Heath Row at May 17, 2006 2:58 PM | Category: healthcare + medicine |
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To really clip bird flu's wings it would be wise to include holistic practitioners and midwives in the mix. These are people who see things outside the box of traditional allopathic medicine. What's the chance that the door will be open to these groups?
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