Medpedia

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Medpedia
Web address Medpedia.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Wiki
Registration Required
Available language(s) English
Owner Medpedia Inc., Ooga Labs
Launched 17 February 2009
Revenue Lost money
Alexa rank positive decrease 1,989,912 (December 2013)[1]
Current status Closed January 2013

Medpedia was a collaborative project launched on 17 February 2009. Its aim was to create an open access online medical wiki encyclopedia[2] in association with Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, Berkeley School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS)[3] as well as other contributors.[4] Content was licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) license and ran on modified MediaWiki software. Harvard Medical School did not have a role in, nor is it responsible for, the content that appeared in the “wiki” section of Medpedia.

Anyone with medical knowledge was welcome to become part of Medpedia's community. However, to qualify to edit or contribute to the main content, approved editors must have an M.D., D.O., or Ph.D. in a biomedical field. Such editorial control policies appear to have been relatively successful in earlier established medical wikis directed towards a more technical audience such as Ganfyd. Others can contribute by writing in suggestions for changes to the site using the "Make a suggestion" link at the top of each page. An approved editor will review and potentially add submitted suggestions.[5]

Medpedia was composed of three primary components:

  1. A collaborative encyclopedia (also referred to as the "knowledge base")
  2. A Network & Directory for health professionals and organizations
  3. Communities of Interest where medical professionals and non-professionals come together to discuss topics of interest.

A 2012 literature review of 50 academic journal articles about the use of social media by clinicians[6] remarked that Medpedia had "launched in 2009 with substantial institutional backing" but that the authors "did not find articles reporting success metrics" for it.

About January 2013 the site abruptly closed with apparently very little attention. Medpedia’s founder James Currier acknowledged this was permanent in a Medical blog in July 2013[7]


Medpedia is now closed. Their facebook and twitter feeds may be still open but they have not been updated in a few years. Their webpage now goes to a spam site.

References

  1. ↑ "Medpedia.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-12-01. 
  2. ↑ "Medpedia Launches Giant Wikipedia-Like Medical And Health Encyclopedia". medicalnewstoday.com. 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2008-07-28. 
  3. ↑ Cross, Michael (2008-07-24). "NHS Choices will need to justify its £80m price tag". London: guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-07-28. 
  4. ↑ Moore, Matthew (2008-07-23). "Medpedia, the medical Wikipedia, allows patients to diagnose themselves". London: telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-07-28. 
  5. ↑ Nye, Calley (2008-07-22). "MedPedia Is Wikifying the Medical Search Space". washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2008-07-28. 
  6. ↑ von Muhlen, M., & Ohno-Machado, L. (2012). Reviewing social media use by clinicians. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 19(5), 777–81. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000990
  7. ↑ "Medpedia, the Medical Wikipedia, is Dead. And we Missed its Funeral… Laika's MedLibLog 12 July 2013". 

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