Monday, June 19, 2006

Medgadget Launches Medtech Wiki

Filed under: Medgadget Exclusive

We'd like to announce our new project, the Medtech Wiki, an open source knowledge base about medical technologies and devices. Hopefully we can all work on it...together: The Medgadget Wiki.

If you're new to the interwebs, a Wiki is a user-editable reference designed to be populated with entries by anyone and edited/maintained by the user community at large.

What does this mean in our case? To be honest, we're not entirely sure. First off, we'd love to have a nice "base" layer of reference articles on basic medgadgets.

Because our audience needs to know more than the basics of what a particular device is, we'd like to have entries for specific devices. Do you work for a medical device company? We'd love for you to make an entry on your device. Do you have an idea for a future device, let the world know.

That's right, you heard us: free advertising...sort of. Anything too self-congratulatory presents an excellent target for being corrected. Thus, when you claim your herbal remedy fights cancer, impotence, depression, hypertension, constipation, or total impaction, all "using an all-natural Chinese formula," someone will probably clean your entry. However, stick to the facts and label any theory/arguments as such and you should be OK.

How to get started writing? Visit our "Create a New Entry" Page, and begin without even needing to register.

For more advanced Wiki techniques, get some help from the people who make our software.

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