Hello all, I am an MD-PhD student-researcher currently based in Barcelona, Spain. I have recently been tasked to organize a special edition of the African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences devoted to the use of open knowledge and open technologies for health and well-being. The present message is to both invite anyone willing to contribute a paper to the issue, and to ask the community if anyone knows about any medical open knowledge base available and, hopefully, under active development.
I am working on a clinical open-source decision support system myself, setting up an international consortium to collectively undertake such a massive task (at the moment contacting a bit less than three thousand medical schools worldwide), and would really benefit from being able to access previous datasets -even old ones such as those created for expert systems such as MYCIN, ONCOCIN, CADACEUS, DIALOG, Internist-I and Quick Medical Reference (QMR).
Although I am aware there have been recent efforts in that direction (citation below), and contacted the authors asking for access, so far no luck. I would really appreciate any help!
All the best,
Enric Garcia Torrents
Doctoral Researcher (MD-PhD trainee)
Medical Anthropology Research Center
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Follow my open science notebook at:
https://research.enricgarcia.md
References:
Müller, Lars, et al. “An open access medical knowledge base for community driven diagnostic decision support system development.” BMC medical informatics and decision making 19.1 (2019): 1-7.
