Hands on: Medpedia delivers credible, pleasant medical wiki
Tue, Feb 17th, 2009
Between WebMD and initiatives from Google and Microsoft to digitize health records, centralized medical information is making its way onto the Web right now, and Medpedia on Tuesday became the latest entry in the space. It mixes elements of a managed medical reference wiki that only approved members can edit with a handful of social aspects, and our first look indicates that Medpedia is off to a cautious but inspiring start.
Medpedia, originally launched with a private beta last July, 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." Partners like the
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