The way that LONIC mapping is able to achieve its rather mammoth task is
through it’s simplicity.  Doctors and laboratory technicians always
used to use descriptive language to articulate what they saw through
microscope lenses.  Translation of those observations into foreign
languages often created a fog of ambiguity that made it difficult to
share medical observations between languages.    

Instead of relying on human or computer software to translate observations from one language to another software users enter their observations using simple codes that cross the language barrier.  A hospital in Shang Hai is able to coordinate with a lab in Tokyo to share equipment that is too costly for either center to afford on it’s own.  The results of case studies needn’t be merely published in a journal.  The complete sample analysis is available for multiple parties on the very day that the tests are completed.

A positive unintended consequence of this kind of open exchange of raw data is that it allows many minds to examine the data before anyone draws conclusions about it.  It is the medical equivalent of getting the associated press feed direct to your home as opposed to watching FOX NEWS.  On the one hand you get to form your own opinions on the basis of demonstrated facts, on the other you have to try to collect the facts from amidst a pool of opinions.