The Medpedia Project • Medpedia.com

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The Medpedia Project is a long-term, worldwide project to evolve a new model for sharing and advancing knowledge about health, medicine, and the body among medical professionals and the general public. This model is founded on providing a free, online technology platform that is collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transparent. Users of the platform include physicians, consumers, medical and scientific journals, medical schools, research institutes, medical associations, hospitals, for-profit and non-profit organizations, expert patients, policy makers, students, non-professionals taking care of loved ones, individual medical professionals, scientists, etc. As Medpedia grows, it will become a repository of up-to-date, unbiased medical information, contributed and maintained by health experts around the world, and freely available to everyone. In association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School, and other global health organizations, Medpedia will be a commons for the gathering of the information and people critical to healthcare. Version 1.0 of the online Medpedia platform was released in beta on Feb 17, 2009. Only physicians and PhDs are allowed to edit the articles on Medpedia after they create an account and are approved as an editor. Non-editors can create an account and then suggest changes that must be approved by an editor before going live on the site. Visit Medpedia.com for more information.