Talk:Open Source Medicine

The biggest killers

Cancer, cardiovascular disease and stroke are already dealt with in the article. It would be nice to get some mention of these:

• AIDS - Proteomics??? Education is probably the real answer, at least until a cure or vaccine is found.
• Malaria - One of the most interesting ways to control malaria, and certainly the cheapest, is with permaculture. A bat-house will control mosquitos^[1], planting plants rich in citronella oil around human habitations will repel mosquitos and growing the Polyporus umbellatus mushroom is effective against the parasite itself.

Interesting links

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=1
• http://www.openclinical.org/

Proteomics

• http://www.ted.com/talks/david_agus_a_new_strategy_in_the_war_on_cancer.html
• http://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_two_frontiers_of_cancer_treatment.html

Regenerative medicine

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tijEl8I38mo&feature=related

Imaging

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqTkuaAykBw

Open Medical AI

• Communicates with patient in natural language
• Turns every patient into a data point - bridges gap between clinic and research
• Accesses medical journals (with Natural Language Processing)
• Interprets scans (with machine vision)
• Analyzes test results, like proteomics, genomics, blood tests
• Simulations of biochemistry, proteomics
• Analyzes small, wireless sensors
• Makes decisions (with Bayesian logic, expert systems, machine learning)
• Integrated with an Electronic Medical Record system
• All this done by cloud computing

http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-to-collaborate-with-nuance-to-apply-watson-analytics-technology-to-healthcare

Unfortunately, most of the development in this field is being done by private companies; there is not yet a dynamic open-source project. There was EgaDSS, but it seems to have stalled out. There is an X-Prize with a $10 million purse to stimulate medical A.I, but this will lead away from open-source.