Share and Sync. Any information. Anytime. Anywhere.

Whether you are a life science researcher, a practitioner, a veterinarian, an epidemiologist, a decision maker or a patient, you're always faced with the reality that information is often not shared in a timely manner. To make things worse, the value of the information is lost because you couldn't use it in time, or didn't have the means to share it when it was most needed. You want to quickly collect information and share this information with others in your discipline, across agencies, or across cultures. This is also the case if you are a patient, and your information resides in pieces across different places with no track of your lifelong health record.

Our engineers just released mesh4x to meet your needs and help fulfill your mission. This work is still within the context of our overall collaborative approach which enables and facilitates specifically social networking, participation, apomediation, collaboration, and openness within and between users: health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, biomedical researchers, epidemiologists, governments, NGOs, just to mention a few. The potential of mesh4x is great: realizing the promise to accelerate discovery of science, predict emergence of diseases, detect disease outbreaks, allow multiple response agencies to share "meaningful" information in a timely manner, assist the humanitarian community in its relief work in harsh and austere environments, enhance outcome research...

Big science, small science - we live in an era of big information. Tony Hey (Microsoft) once described the emergence of new science from a progression that started with experimental sciences (a few thousand years ago), to theoretical science (a few hundred years ago), to computational science (a few decades ago), to data-centric science of today. We’re in a constant state of denial about how much usable information is being lost in an increasingly vast amount of data at our fingertips.

The future is to manage and figure out global ways to respond to your needs.


Of course, the journey for us is just starting - we need your input and your help so we can make best use of our approach and tools to meet your needs. We want to respect and understand what works in your environment and what doesn't, and with great respect to your culture, policies, environment, connectivity and more.

 

Posted April 25th, 2008 by Taha Kass-Hout