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This is a list of medical wikis, collaboratively-editable websites that focus on medical information. Many medical are , with a separate article for each medical term. Some of these websites are editable by anyone, while others restrict editing access to professionals. The majority of them have content available only in English language.
The largest and most popular general encyclopedia, Wikipedia, also hosts a significant amount of health and medical information.
HemOnc.org runs on MediaWiki software. Anyone may sign up for an account and suggest additional information to be added. Editing privileges are activated for account holders whose credentials are verified. The content is not under an open license.
Data about HemOnc.org has been presented at the 2013 ASCO Quality Care Symposium,Peter C. Yang, Andrew Cowan, Jeremy Warner. Usability evaluation of HemOnc.org, a collaborative online hematology/oncology reference. J Clin Oncol 31, 2013 (suppl 31; abstr 244). 2013 ASCO Quality Care Symposium abstract 244. and it was profiled in 2013 in the Oncology Times. The website's chemotherapy regimen database has also been used for academic research projects as of 2013.
The purpose of the site was to provide reliable and easily accessed health information for the medical community including physicians, nurses, and medical students. The information published on the site is not meant to supersede medical training but to serve as a repository of medical review articles to give medical professionals an online source where they can review medical topics. The website is similar to Wikipedia because it runs on MediaWiki software allowing users to add and edit articles, but differs in that all users must be credentialed based on their medical training before they are allowed to publish. Its goal is not to compete with Wikipedia regarding consumer health-related topics, but to serve as an expert medical wiki and provide a source of up-to-date medical information for healthcare providers.
In December 2006, AskDrWiki was referenced in a British Medical Journal article, "How Web 2.0 is Changing Medicine", as one of the early adopters of using video hosting sites such as YouTube and Google Video to host medical videos. It was also discussed in a 2007 Nature Medicine article on medical wikis. AskDrWiki has been featured in other media including The Plain Dealer, Medical Economics and The American Medical Association News. Physician Wikis:Do-it-Yourself Textbooks
As of February 2015, although still online, the wiki had minimal ongoing contributions, with only 3 edits in 2014. Ask Dr Wiki's recent changes page , accessed 2/8/2015, showing only 3 edits in 2014 and none since July 2014. As of March 2022 the site was down.
The encyclopedia was the result of a collaboration of the Nycomed Amersham Intercontinental Continuing Education in Radiology Institute (NICER Institute), Sweden, Department of Radiology, Lund University, Sweden, and Amersham Health, Oslo, Norway. It was provided and copyrighted by the GE Healthcare of General Electric corporation. Retrieval of images (other than thumbnails) required registration.
The website contained 3,600 pages before closing down.
Anyone with medical knowledge was welcome to become part of Medpedia's community. However, to qualify to edit or contribute to the main content, approved editors needed an M.D., D.O., or Ph.D. in a biomedical field. Others could contribute by writing in suggestions for changes to the site using the "Make a suggestion" link at the top of each page. An approved editor could review and potentially add submitted suggestions.
Medpedia was composed of three primary components:
A 2012 literature review of 50 academic journal articles about the use of social media by cliniciansvon Muhlen, M., & Ohno-Machado, L. (2012). Reviewing social media use by clinicians. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 19(5), 777–81. remarked that Medpedia had "launched in 2009 with substantial institutional backing" but that the authors "did not find articles reporting success metrics" for it.
Around January 2013 the site abruptly closed. Medpedia's founder James Currier acknowledged that this was permanent in a blog post in July 2013.
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