Medizendium?

Well! I just finished reading through a blog post by Dean Giustini that proposes using a wiki to create an open pharmacy tool that could be used at the point of care instead of UpToDate or other commercial products that are crazy expensive and/or may have licensing restrictions that make them less useful than they could be. The idea of beginning a community-developed tool like this is a neat idea, however, it makes me wonder about its potential authoritativeness. Would physicians use a tool like this? If I were a patient, would I want my doctor using a wiki to make decisions about my care?

It looks like people are ready to talk about the idea of such a tool, anyway. Stuart Brower will be conducting a forum on the topic in Buffalo. I’ll be following these discussions with interest!