Google Earth in Medicine

"By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modeling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.

Software tools are being developed that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe to find children with closely matched conditions. The doctors can then study how the matched patients at other hospitals were treated and whether that treatment was successful. The information will greatly improve doctors' ability to choose the right path for their own patient."

http://www.medicalnewstoday.co...

This is just the beginning. In the near future all kinds of disease matching software will be available. In fact, the meaning of the human genome will be resolved with similar kind of software. The genes will be matched with diseases on huge population studies.

Once the whole genome sequence is around $100-200 it will take only 1-2 years to decode nearly all diseases and genes.

While moving my house I came across an in print version of a world map with the print date of 2004 on it. It was a nice piece of work. So much effort so much ink was invested into the world map. However, today it is out of use. Google earth did not trashed it but came on top of it. The medical knowledge of today is the in print version of that map. Google earth equivalent in medicine will come soon, pretty soon and all of a sudden.