Telemedicine

Quoting from Worldchanging: Hippocrates is a medical information search engine, providing one-click links to a variety of data sources about diseases and treatments. The search engine focuses on the "deep web," the dynamic content used to produce on-the-fly pages, which is generally invisible to traditional search methods. The data presentation is structured to make it easy for non-specialist users to find needed information quickly."

This can certainly be a first step towards delivering telemedicine to remote rural areas, but it is not a diagnosis tool as yet. The vision should be one of enabling nurses or operators partially trained in medicine to be able to query the search engine through rural Internet kiosks by specifying a set of symptoms, and get back instructions to administer first aid or quick medical attention to patients.