Imagine Cup - doctor information overload

In the next in our series of problems faced in the medical profession which is preventing people from leading healthier lives' we talked to some local GPs about how technology can help them help people and the first obvious thing was the amount of information a doctor has to digest to do his/her job.

A doctor spends a number of years in academic study learning the internals of the human body, the problems that can happen and how to mend us when things go wrong. After university when they begin to practice medicine (either general or specialist) the education continues to happen with the thousands of medical documents that are released each year. Doctors don't have the time to sift through all this information and I was wondering if there is something that an Imagine Cup team could do to help.

What if the advances being made in the WWW could help a doctor? What if an application could plug into the medical journal databases and allow a doctor to have a tailored and automated learning experience gleaning all the right information for their areas of interest and providing in a simple to read electronic interface. There are some big challenges out there that could be helped along using some cool technology such as tagging/semantic-web/blogging/who knows....