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Crowdsourcing is a specific sourcing model in which organizations use contributions from Internet users to obtain needed services or ideas. Crowdsourcing was coined in 2005 as a portmanteau of crowd and outsourcing.[1][2][3][4] This mode of sourcing to divide work between participants to achieve a cumulative result was already successful before the digital age (i.e., "offline").[5] Crowdsourcing is distinguished from outsourcing in that the work can come from an undefined public (instead of being commissioned from a specific, named group) and in that crowdsourcing includes a mix of bottom-up and top-down processes.[6][7][8] Advantages of using crowdsourcing may include improved costs, speed, quality, flexibility, scalability, or diversity.[9] Crowdsourcing in the form of idea competitions or innovation contests provides a way for organizations to learn beyond what their "base of minds" of employees provides (e.g., LEGO Ideas).[10] Crowdsourcing can also involve rather tedious "microtasks" that are performed in parallel by large, paid crowds (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk). Crowdsourcing has also been used for noncommercial work and to develop common goods (e.g., Wikipedia). Arguably the best-known example of crowdsourcing as of 2015 is crowdfunding, the collection of funds from the crowd (e.g., Kickstarter).
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Crowdsourcing is a specific sourcing model in which organizations use contributions from Internet users to obtain needed services or ideas.
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== Overview ==
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Some of the most well known crowdsourced work includes sites like Wikipedia and Reddit. As it pertains to medicine, crowdsourcing can be divided into 3 main categories: health promotion, health research, and health maintenance. However, the potential exists to improve Clinical Decision Support (CDS) for work up, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions
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== Channels ==
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website or dashboard
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fully integrated into Electronic Health Record (EHR)
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== Potential Medical Applications ==
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== Limitations ==
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not medically trained
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funding
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more studies -not proven
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ethical implications
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== Examples ==
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[https://www.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
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[https://www.reddit.com Reddit]
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[https://www.kickstarter.com Kickstarter]
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[https://www.fema.gov/blog/2013-08-02/crowdsourcing-disasters-and-social-engagement-multiplied FEMA]
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== Medical Examples ==
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[https://www.crowdmed.com CrowdMed]
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[https://www.patientslikeme.com PatientsLikeMe]
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[http://www.improvecarenow.org ImproveCareNow]
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'''References'''
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Submitted by Andrew Muth, MD
 
Submitted by Andrew Muth, MD
  
 
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Revision as of 14:36, 23 October 2016

Crowdsourcing is a specific sourcing model in which organizations use contributions from Internet users to obtain needed services or ideas.

Overview

Some of the most well known crowdsourced work includes sites like Wikipedia and Reddit. As it pertains to medicine, crowdsourcing can be divided into 3 main categories: health promotion, health research, and health maintenance. However, the potential exists to improve Clinical Decision Support (CDS) for work up, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions

Channels

website or dashboard fully integrated into Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Potential Medical Applications

Limitations

not medically trained funding more studies -not proven ethical implications


Examples

Wikipedia Reddit Kickstarter FEMA


Medical Examples

CrowdMed PatientsLikeMe ImproveCareNow


References


Submitted by Andrew Muth, MD

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