Wiki Early Warning System for Pandemics?
by Fred Fortin
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Innovations in communications and information technologies like the telephone, the computer, and the Internet have significantly changed interactions between physicians and patients and have raised the level of health care delivery. The burgeoning growth of information technologies will continue to enhance the patient-physician relationship.
When people take active control of their health,it will play an significant role in controlling of pandemic outbreaks in future by active and rapid dissemination of information.
But,in developing countries,with health sector on least priority scale,can a Global Public Health Intelligence Network really work?
I do not have any doubt about Google’s capacity to innovate in healthcare field but I wonder who is going to get most of the benefit of those applications as far as the market mechanism does not work well with public good as Health.
[…] Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations(IHR) went into effect. In an earlier post I talked about how these regulations are designed to give the WHO broader authority in helping […]
[…] and a rapid response. The development of a wiki early warning capability for pandemics, a concept Brilliant has discussed before, is certainly a fantastic match for the resources and talent that Google can bring to the […]
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