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We decided to use the code name, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eir Eir], pronounced just like "Air", for this open source medical platform project. In Norse mythology, Eir is a goddess and/or valkyrie associated with medical skill. Eir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in skaldic poetry, including a runic inscription from Bergen, Norway from around 1300. Scholars have theorized about whether these three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether Eir may have been originally a healing goddess and/or a valkyrie. In addition, Eir has been theorized as a form of the goddess Frigg and has been compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia. | We decided to use the code name, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eir Eir], pronounced just like "Air", for this open source medical platform project. In Norse mythology, Eir is a goddess and/or valkyrie associated with medical skill. Eir is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources; the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson; and in skaldic poetry, including a runic inscription from Bergen, Norway from around 1300. Scholars have theorized about whether these three sources refer to the same figure, and debate whether Eir may have been originally a healing goddess and/or a valkyrie. In addition, Eir has been theorized as a form of the goddess Frigg and has been compared to the Greek goddess Hygieia. | ||
[[File:eir.jpg|center|400px|Menglöð sits with the nine maidens, including Eir, on Lyfjaberg (1893) by Lorenz Frølich.]] | [[File:eir.jpg|center|400px|Menglöð sits with the nine maidens, including Eir, on Lyfjaberg (1893) by Lorenz Frølich.]] | ||
===Market Size and Ecosystem=== | |||
According to a June 2015 study from McKinsey & Company, the economic effect from cloud connected health technology could range between '''$170 billion to $1.1 trillion a year in the next 10 years'''. It explains the significant impact from solutions like Eir. | |||
In the ecosystem, roles include users/patients/family members, hospitals/doctors/health-care organizations, research institutes, medical device manufacturers, insurance industry, and pharma industry. When it comes to cost savings, the insurance industry stands to benefit the most. Insurers will continue to push the technology innovations that reduce the amount of money they pay in claims, '''totaled more than $250 billion in 2015''', according to the US Treasury Department. Innovations like these are of vital importance to $1 trillion pharma industry. The reason is easy to be understood: The sooner the doctors can detect illness, the sooner patients can start taking the drugs they need to manage or cure their conditions. | |||
Mozilla won't host servers to keep data from patients. Instead, Mozilla initializes this project, works with community, and provide a total solution to anyone who is legally authorized to host the servers. This project has perfect match to Mozilla's mission, to bring more devices into the world of web, and allow patients to get timely diagnosis from doctors via web technology. | |||
===Concept of the platform=== | ===Concept of the platform=== | ||