Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a specific type of outsourcing where an organization uses contributions from mainly unidentified users to quickly create a large amount of knowledge.[1] Some of the most well known crowdsourced work includes sites like Wikipedia and Reddit. This method can be applied to Clinical Informatics through the use of Big Data.
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Overview
Crowdsourcing as it pertains to medicine can generally be divided into 3 main categories: health promotion, health research, and health maintenance.[2] However, the potential exists for crowdsourcing to improve Clinical Decision Support (CDS) for work up, diagnosis, and treatment of medical conditions. Each day, massive amounts of medical data are created, which can be leveraged to help guide best practice. Conceptually, users would be patients and/or physicians
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
Medical Examples
References
- ↑ Crowdsourcing. (2016, October 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:08, October 19, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crowdsourcing&oldid=745111908
- ↑ Crowdsourcing. (2016, October 19). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:08, October 19, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crowdsourcing&oldid=745111908
Submitted by Andrew Muth, MD
