www.Anvita.Info
The goal of Anvita.info is to create a semantic wiki so that clinical decision support systems can pose questions of the entire wiki and receive answers in realtime. This is analogous to a search engine, excepting that actual computed answers are returned, versus links to URLs for additional research. Wolfram Alpha is a great example of a company (Wolfram Research, which I have greatly admired since 1991) that is working to do this in the general consumer space. This is an enormous undertaking: however, at Anvita we propose to do it at a very deep level within a single domain (medical knowledge). The end results could be interesting.
...is a computable semantic wiki. This I believe represents a new way of approaching medical knowledge. This alpha wiki is really a database that appears to be a wiki (human readable) but is also computable (unlike Wikipedia). So, for example, one cannot pose a question of Wikipedia like "How many U.S. congress members are female?" This is despite the fact that every female congresswoman has a Wikipedia entry that states she is female. However, a semantic wiki could answer this kind of arbitrary query.
The goal of Anvita.info is to create a semantic wiki so that clinical decision support systems can pose questions of the entire wiki and receive answers in realtime. This is analogous to a search engine, excepting that actual computed answers are returned, versus links to URLs for additional research. Wolfram Alpha is a great example of a company (Wolfram Research, which I have greatly admired since 1991) that is working to do this in the general consumer space. This is an enormous undertaking: however, at Anvita we propose to do it at a very deep level within a single domain (medical knowledge). The end results could be interesting.
Ahmed Ghouri M.D.
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Hey Dr Ghouri,
I briefly browsed through Anvita's website. You are a true pioneer in Clinical Informatics and role-model for doctors like myself.
I am an internist in Phoenix. My undergrad education background was in computer engineering. After practicing for 10 years as a hospitalist I am once again "returning to my root". Are their any internship opps at Anvita for docs interested in Clinical Informatics. I also plan on starting a Graduate Cert program in 2011.
Thank you.
Mujib
dr.haque@gmail.com
Once again the great Ahmed has spoke. Schomburg
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