{"id":12590,"date":"2015-06-02T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2015-06-02T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:51:39","slug":"crowd-sourcing-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/crowd-sourcing-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd Sourcing Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/053115_1940_CrowdSourci1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist wrote about the emerging practice of asking millions of strangers on the internet for help with medical problems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are at least 7,000 &#8220;rare&#8221; diseases \u2013 those that affect fewer than 200,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>Doctors cannot possibly be aware of, and know how to diagnose all of them.<\/li>\n<li>Even if they&#8217;re farsighted enough to know that they&#8217;re unable to diagnose a particular condition, they may not know who to refer a patient to.<\/li>\n<li>In Europe 40% of those afflicted with rare diseases get an incorrect diagnosis at first.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the crowdsourcing healthcare site CrowdMed. The site allows users to post a detailed list of their aliments and ask for a diagnosis.<\/li>\n<li>Patients can offer monetary rewards to garner more attention.<\/li>\n<li>Those who contribute are medical students, retired doctors, and other laymen who enjoy a challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Those who provide a correct diagnosis rise in the website&#8217;s rankings and gain more prominence.<\/li>\n<li>One analysis indicates that 80% of the suggestions offered through the site were accurate.<\/li>\n<li>Surprisingly the most accurate diagnoses don&#8217;t always come from those with the best credentials.<\/li>\n<li>On the other end of the spectrum, AI systems such as IBM&#8217;s Watson are also entering into the healthcare diagnosis business by using big data to come up with suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>It remains to be seen if crowdsourcing or artificial intelligence will provide the most accurate medical evaluations in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more in the truly excellent Economist over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21651765-many-hands-make-diagnosis-work-crowd-will-see-you-now?frsc=dg%7Ce\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21651765-many-hands-make-diagnosis-work-crowd-will-see-you-now?frsc=dg%7Ce\">The Economist<\/a>c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist wrote about the emerging practice of asking millions of strangers on the internet for help with medical problems: There are at least 7,000 &#8220;rare&#8221; diseases \u2013 those that affect fewer than 200,000 people. Doctors cannot possibly be aware of, and know how to diagnose all of them. Even if they&#8217;re farsighted enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/053115_1940_CrowdSourci1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12593,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12590\/revisions\/12593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}