Crowdsourcing

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Crowdsourcing is a specific type of outsourcing where an organization uses contributions from mainly unidentified users to quickly create a large amount of knowledge. It has implications

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