Word: medpedia
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Dates: during 2008-2008
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...picture, it's an attempt to engage the health and medical communities with Web technology, something that is only beginning today," said Currier, who graduated from Harvard Business School in 1999 and has partnered with scholars at Harvard to launch Medpedia...
...Medical School professor Anthony L. Komaroff, who sits on an advisory committee for the Medpedia Project, said that although others will not be able to edit the early content, people will be able to send in their comments and "engage in dialogue...
...Joseph B. Martin, who stepped down as dean of the Medical School last year, is one of the four members of Medpedia's Board of Advisers. He could not be reached for comment...
...Other academic institutions, including the medical schools at Stanford and Michigan and the school of public health at Berkeley, will be also contributing to the Medpedia Project, though all of the content that they provide will be editable...
While Currier is financing the Medpedia project himself for now, he hopes that Medpedia will generate enough revenue with its "non-intrusive text ads" to cover costs and "serve the medical community better...