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...addition to the encyclopedic "wiki" component of Medpedia—which will be edited by approved contributors selected through an internal review process—the online Web site will serve as a professional network for the medical community and a platform for patient groups...
...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—what aims to become the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—recalls scouring the Web for medical information while comforting a sick child or two. Even for a tech-savvy entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, readily-accessible, credible information was not easy to find online...
...felt as if medical information on the Web was more underdeveloped than other areas I was used to spending time on the Web with," Currier said. "I've been building Web sites for years, and I felt that there needed to be an upgrade on what was available...
...Currier said that it will be easier to discover conflict-of-interest issues in an online environment, since Web media lend themselves to greater transparency...
...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...